Restore robustness of TAP tests that wait for postmaster restart.
Several TAP tests use poll_query_until() to wait for the postmaster to restart. They were checking to see if a trivial query (e.g. "SELECT 1") succeeds. However, that's problematic in the wake of commit 11e9caff, because now that we feed said query to psql via stdin, we risk IPC::Run whining about a SIGPIPE failure if psql quits before reading the query. Hence, we can't use a nonempty query in cases where we need to wait for connection failures to stop happening. Per the precedent of commits c757a3da and 6d41dd04, we can pass "undef" as the query in such cases to ensure that IPC::Run has nothing to write. However, then we have to say that the expected output is empty, and this exposes a deficiency in poll_query_until: if psql fails altogether and returns empty stdout, poll_query_until will treat that as a success! That's because, contrary to its documentation, it makes no actual check for psql failure, looking neither at the exit status nor at stderr. To fix that, adjust poll_query_until to insist on empty stderr as well as a stdout match. (I experimented with checking exit status instead, but it seems that psql often does exit(1) in cases that we need to consider successes. That might be something to fix someday, but it would be a non-back-patchable behavior change.) Back-patch to v10. The test cases needing this exist only as far back as v11, but it seems wise to keep poll_query_until's behavior the same in v10, in case we back-patch another such test case in future. (9.6 does not currently need this change, because in that branch poll_query_until can't be told to accept empty stdout as a success case.) Per assorted buildfarm failures, mostly on hoverfly. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+zM6L4QSA1XMvXY_qqWwdUmqkOS1+hWvL8QcYEBGA1Uw@mail.gmail.com
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