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Re: depth-test.py failing

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:56:18 +0100

On 28.10.2013 13:48, Philip Martin wrote:
> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
>> On 28.10.2013 12:24, Philip Martin wrote:
>>> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 28.10.2013 10:07, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>>>> It turns out that sqlite3_reset fails, which is why we ultimately get
>>>>> the assertion during pool cleanup. This appears to be due to a bug in
>>>>> our code; we call svn_sqlite__reset (and thus sqlite3_reset) if
>>>>> sqlite3_step fails (this is line 316 in sqlite.c), and that is
>>>>> documented to fail as per
>>> sqlite3_reset is documented to return an error but I don't think that's
>>> the same as failing, it's just propagating any sqlite3_step error.
>> The result is that we get the same error in the chain twice; we don't
>> actually know that the statement is reset; and on top of everything
>> else, in such cases we do not clear the svn_sqlite__stmt_t::needs_reset
>> flag, which leads to another error during pool cleanup (or an abort in
>> maintainer mode).
> So we rely on this code in svn_fs_fs__set_rep_reference, perhaps other
> places as well, but it works ther because the statement is an INSERT and
> there is only ever one step, so needs_reset is never set.

Bert just changed svn_sqlite__reset to do something slightly better in
that the result is more predictable, regardless of previous errors.

> We should write a regression test for out SQLite wrapper code with a
> statement that has a successful step before a failed step. Does that
> mean it has to be a SELECT? If so, how do we get it to fail after a
> successful step? Could we use a scalar function to do that sort of
> thing?

Maybe just try to run the tests with SQLite 3.7.12 ... worked like a
charm for me to reproduce this error. Of course, I still have no idea
whatsoever why the step failed, the error message isn't very informative.

-- Brane

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Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion
WANdisco // Non-Stop Data
e. brane_at_wandisco.com
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