use pg_resetwal to generate pg_control in the test

src/control_plane.rs

@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
         node
     }
 
+     // Init compute node without files, only datadir structure
+     // use initdb --compute-node flag and GUC 'computenode_mode'
+     // to distinguish the node
     pub fn new_minimal_node(&mut self) -> &PostgresNode {
         // allocate new node entry with generated port
         let node_id = self.nodes.len() + 1;
@@ -386,7 +389,8 @@ impl PostgresNode {
         self.pgdata.to_str()
     }
 
-    pub fn create_controlfile(&self)
+    /* Create stub controlfile and respective xlog to start computenode */
+    pub fn setup_controlfile(&self)
     {
         let filepath = format!("{}/global/pg_control", self.pgdata.to_str().unwrap());
 
@@ -396,15 +400,16 @@ impl PostgresNode {
 
         let pg_resetwal_path = self.pg_bin_dir.join("pg_resetwal");
 
-        let initdb = Command::new(pg_resetwal_path)
+        let pg_resetwal = Command::new(pg_resetwal_path)
         .args(&["-D", self.pgdata.to_str().unwrap()])
         .arg("-f")
+        // TODO probably we will have to modify pg_resetwal
         // .arg("--compute-node")
         .status()
         .expect("failed to execute pg_resetwal");
 
-        if !initdb.success() {
-            panic!("initdb failed");
+        if !pg_resetwal.success() {
+            panic!("pg_resetwal failed");
         }
     }
 

tests/test_pageserver.rs

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use pageserver::control_plane::StorageControlPlane;
 fn test_redo_cases() {
     // Allocate postgres instance, but don't start
     let mut compute_cplane = ComputeControlPlane::local();
+    // Create compute node without files, only datadir structure
     let node = compute_cplane.new_minimal_node();
 
     // Start pageserver that reads WAL directly from that postgres
@@ -24,9 +25,10 @@ fn test_redo_cases() {
         page_server_connstring = 'host={} port={}'\n\
     ", pageserver_addr.ip(), pageserver_addr.port()).as_str());
 
+    // Request info needed to build control file
     storage_cplane.simple_query_storage("postgres", node.whoami().as_str(), "controlfile");
-
-    node.create_controlfile();
+    // Setup controlfile
+    node.setup_controlfile();
 
     // start postgres
     node.start();