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Problem

Many tests did not check the error of a call: a setup or cleanup statement, removal of diff files, a rollback, a merkle tree teardown, a file close. A broken statement then went unnoticed. For example, a cleanup that sent DROP ... CASCADE CASCADE left its tables in place, and no test reported it.

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Every such error now fails the test. A false failure is better than a real problem that nobody sees.

  • New helpers in tests/integration/check_helpers_test.go: execOK, removeGlob, removeFile, rollback. They report an error with t.Errorf, so a cleanup still runs to the end.
  • Only expected errors are skipped: pgx.ErrTxClosed on a rollback after commit, and os.ErrNotExist when a file to remove is not there.
  • Cleanups that only logged an error (t.Logf) now report it with t.Errorf.
  • teardownPostgresCluster and removeTestDiffResults return their errors. TestMain makes the run fail if the teardown of the shared cluster fails.
  • Unit tests outside tests/integration (keydiff, slicer, db, common, taskstore and others) also check the errors they ignored before.
  • repsetRemoveTable removes a relation from a replication set only if the relation exists and is in the set. All cleanups use it.
  • repairTable runs a table-diff of its table, repairs from the result and checks that no differences are left. Before, it took the newest diff file of any table, and did nothing when it found no file.
  • Tests that capture the log or stdout read the pipe in a goroutine (outputCapture), so a large output cannot block the writer. The outputs are restored in a defer, also when the test fails.
  • Cleanups remove only the diff results of their own table (removeDiffResults): the result directories and the JSON and HTML reports. Before, many of them removed all *_diffs-* files, also the results of other tables and the results from before the run.
  • CI starts a postgres:17 service and sets ACE_TEST_DSN and ACE_SLICER_TEST_DSN. The unit tests that need a database were always skipped in CI before.

No code outside the tests and the CI workflow is changed.

Test bugs found by the stricter checks

  • TestTableDiffAgainstOriginWithUntil: the netem delay was never added, because the containers have no tc and the exit code was not checked. The netem code is removed.
  • Two repset-diff tests called spock.repset_remove_table for a table that does not exist on that node, or that is not in the set.
  • TestMerkleTreeSimplePK and TestMerkleTreeCompositePK, subtests SplitLastRanges and DiffWhileListenActive: the cleanup found no diff file, so it did not repair the shared customers table. The tests after them ran on a table that was different on the two nodes.
  • TestOpenConnsRoleLimit closed the admin connection before the cleanup that drops the test role through it.
  • TestSchemaDiff_SkippedTableNamesInSummary replaced the error of schema-diff with the error of the log read, so a failed schema-diff was not seen.

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The pull request updates unit and integration tests to check errors from test operations, cleanup, and teardown. It adds shared integration-test helpers for SQL execution, file removal, and transaction rollback. Some integration-test cleanup errors now affect the test process exit code.

Changes: Test error reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unit test error checks
db/queries/*, internal/consistency/*, internal/infra/db/*, pkg/common/*, pkg/taskstore/*
Tests now check selected errors from query callbacks, encoding, sampling, database cleanup, file closure, and report operations.
Integration test helpers and suite teardown
tests/integration/check_helpers_test.go, tests/integration/main_test.go, tests/integration/helpers_test.go, tests/integration/service_wait_test.go, tests/integration/test_env_test.go
Shared helpers report SQL, file, and rollback errors. Suite teardown collects cleanup errors and sets a failing exit code when teardown fails after successful tests.
Merkle-tree, CDC, and block test cleanup
tests/integration/block_*, tests/integration/cdc_*, tests/integration/crash_recovery_test.go, tests/integration/hash_collision_diff_test.go, tests/integration/merkle_tree_test.go, tests/integration/mtree_*
These tests check database cleanup, diff-file removal, transaction rollback, and Merkle-tree teardown errors. The crash-recovery test also checks netem command results and conditionally removes the delay.
Diff, schema, and repair test cleanup
tests/integration/catalog_privileges_test.go, tests/integration/native_pg_test.go, tests/integration/repset_*, tests/integration/schema_diff_*, tests/integration/table_*, tests/integration/scan_rows_test.go, tests/integration/scope_test.go, tests/integration/slicer_method_test.go, tests/integration/spock_diff_test.go, tests/integration/numeric_scale_test.go, tests/integration/recovery_single_node_test.go, tests/integration/report_format_test.go, tests/integration/connection_settings_test.go
These tests check selected database, file, pipe, connection, and rollback errors. Repeated diff-file cleanup uses shared helpers.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 0eb14

This change makes previously ignored test errors fail the tests. Some of the new checks are themselves flawed: one cleanup can fail a database test every time it runs, one test can accept a failed schema diff, and partition cleanup may fail spuriously. No production code changes, but these should be fixed before merge so the test suite is reliable.

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The title names the main change: tests now fail on errors they previously ignored. The changeset adds checks for ignored errors in setup, cleanup, file removal, rollbacks, and teardowns across many test files, so the title matches the primary change. It is short and specific.

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The description matches the changeset. It explains that many integration and unit tests ignored errors from setup, cleanup, file removal, rollbacks, teardowns, and file closes, and that those errors now fail tests. It names the new helpers (execOK, removeGlob, removeFile, rollback) in tests/integration/check_helpers_test.go, lists the teardown and TestMain changes, and describes the test bugs the stricter checks exposed, such as the netem delay in TestTableDiffAgainstOriginWithUntil and the repset-diff cleanups. These items match the raw summary of changed files. The description also states that no production code changes, which agrees with the summary's test-only files.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/infra/db/open_conns_test.go:
- Around line 65-66: Update the admin connection cleanup in the test so it
remains open until role cleanup completes. Register the admin close with
`t.Cleanup` before registering the role-drop cleanup, preserving the cleanup
order that drops the role before closing the connection.

Review comments at @tests/integration/repset_diff_summary_test.go:
- Line 223: In the test flow around SchemaTableDiff, preserve its error in a
separate diffErr variable instead of overwriting it with the result of
buf.ReadFrom. Assert diffErr so a successful pipe read cannot hide a schema-diff
failure.

Review comments at @tests/integration/repset_diff_test.go:
- Line 351: Update both replication-set cleanup loops, including the one in
TestRepsetDiff_SkipsRelationUnsupportedOnOneNode, to call
spock.repset_remove_table only when the relation is a member of the target set
according to spock.tables. Preserve the existing relation-existence check and
ensure the fallback cleanup also skips nonmember relations.

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  • db/queries/key_ident_test.go
  • internal/consistency/diff/repset_diff_test.go
  • internal/consistency/diff/schema_diff_test.go
  • internal/consistency/keydiff/compare_test.go
  • internal/consistency/keydiff/keydiff_test.go
  • internal/consistency/slicer/method_test.go
  • internal/consistency/slicer/sample_db_test.go
  • internal/consistency/slicer/slicer_db_test.go
  • internal/infra/db/open_conns_test.go
  • pkg/common/diff_result_test.go
  • pkg/common/html_reporter_test.go
  • pkg/taskstore/taskstore_perm_test.go
  • tests/integration/block_hash_test.go
  • tests/integration/block_slicing_test.go
  • tests/integration/catalog_privileges_test.go
  • tests/integration/cdc_adaptive_drain_test.go
  • tests/integration/cdc_busy_table_test.go
  • tests/integration/cdc_init_ordering_test.go
  • tests/integration/cdc_leaf_bound_test.go
  • tests/integration/check_helpers_test.go
  • tests/integration/col_expr_test.go
  • tests/integration/connection_settings_test.go
  • tests/integration/crash_recovery_test.go
  • tests/integration/hash_collision_diff_test.go
  • tests/integration/helpers_test.go
  • tests/integration/keydiff_test.go
  • tests/integration/main_test.go
  • tests/integration/merkle_tree_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_empty_table_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_first_block_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_hash_version_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_key_types_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_missing_tree_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_numeric_pkey_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_partitioned_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_perf_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_pkey_types_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_stale_leaf_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_truncate_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_typed_repair_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_update_conflict_test.go
  • tests/integration/mtree_uuid_pkey_test.go
  • tests/integration/native_pg_test.go
  • tests/integration/numeric_scale_test.go
  • tests/integration/recovery_single_node_test.go
  • tests/integration/report_format_test.go
  • tests/integration/repset_diff_connleak_test.go
  • tests/integration/repset_diff_conntrack_test.go
  • tests/integration/repset_diff_summary_test.go
  • tests/integration/repset_diff_test.go
  • tests/integration/scan_rows_test.go
  • tests/integration/schema_diff_structure_test.go
  • tests/integration/schema_diff_summary_test.go
  • tests/integration/schema_diff_test.go
  • tests/integration/scope_test.go
  • tests/integration/service_wait_test.go
  • tests/integration/slicer_method_test.go
  • tests/integration/spock_diff_test.go
  • tests/integration/table_diff_memory_test.go
  • tests/integration/table_diff_schema_mismatch_test.go
  • tests/integration/table_diff_test.go
  • tests/integration/table_diff_time_limits_test.go
  • tests/integration/table_repair_test.go
  • tests/integration/test_env_test.go

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Comment thread internal/infra/db/open_conns_test.go Resolved
Comment thread tests/integration/repset_diff_test.go Resolved
Many tests dropped the error of a call: a statement of the setup or the
cleanup, a removal of the diff files, a rollback, a teardown of the
merkle tree, a close of a file. A broken statement then went unnoticed:
for example, a cleanup that sent "DROP ... CASCADE CASCADE" left its
tables behind without a message.

Now every such error fails the test. The new helpers execOK,
removeGlob, removeFile and rollback report an error with t.Errorf, so a
cleanup still runs to the end. Only the errors that are expected are
skipped: a rollback of a transaction that is already closed, and the
removal of a file that does not exist. Cleanups that only logged an
error now report it as a failure, and the teardown of the shared cluster
makes the run fail.

The helper repsetRemoveTable removes a relation from a replication set
only if the relation exists and is in the set. All cleanups use it, so
a relation that is missing on a node, or that is not in the set, does
not fail the cleanup.

repairTable used the newest diff file of any table, and did nothing
when it found no file. In the merkle tree subtests SplitLastRanges and
DiffWhileListenActive no file was there, so the shared customers table
stayed different on the nodes for the tests that ran after them. Now
repairTable runs a table-diff of its table, repairs from the result and
checks that no differences are left.

The stricter checks found these problems in the tests:

- TestTableDiffAgainstOriginWithUntil tried to add a netem delay on n3,
  but the containers have no tc, and the exit code was not checked: the
  delay was never added. The netem code is removed.
- Two repset-diff tests removed tables from a replication set on a node
  where the table does not exist.
- TestOpenConnsRoleLimit closed the admin connection before the cleanup
  that drops the test role through it.
- TestSchemaDiff_SkippedTableNamesInSummary overwrote the error of
  schema-diff with the error of the log read, so a failed schema-diff
  was not seen.
Tests that capture the log or the standard output pointed it at a pipe
and read the pipe only after the code under test had returned. When the
output is larger than the pipe buffer, the writer blocks and the test
hangs. The read end of the pipe was also never closed, and a test that
failed in the middle left os.Stdout or os.Stderr pointed at the pipe.

The new outputCapture reads the pipe in a goroutine while the test
writes. stop closes the pipe, waits for the reader and returns the
text; a cleanup stops a capture that the test did not stop. captureLog,
captureStdout and captureOutput use it and restore the outputs in a
defer. The summary tests use captureLog instead of their own pipe code.
Many cleanups removed every "*_diffs-*" file and directory in the
working directory: the results of other tables, and also results that
were there before the run, which the teardown of the suite takes care
to keep. Other cleanups removed only the JSON reports of their table
and left the result directories behind.

The new helper removeDiffResults removes the result directories and
the JSON and HTML reports of one table. All cleanups use it. The
teardown of the native PostgreSQL cluster uses removeTestDiffResults,
so it keeps the results from before the run.
The slicer tests and the connection tests of internal/infra/db need a
PostgreSQL server. They are skipped when ACE_SLICER_TEST_DSN or
ACE_TEST_DSN is not set, and the workflow did not set them, so CI never
ran these tests.

The test job now starts a postgres:17 service with trust authentication
and sets both variables for the unit tests. Trust authentication is
needed because TestOpenConnsRoleLimit logs in as a role that it creates
without a password.
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