Re: pg_upgrade automatic testing

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I've committed it now, and some buildfarm members are failing with lack
> of shared memory, semaphores, or disk space. Don't know what to do with
> that or why so many are failing like that. We could create a way to
> omit the test if it becomes a problem.

I believe the issue is that those BF members have kernel settings that
only support running one postmaster at a time. The way you've got this
set up, it launches a new private postmaster during a make installcheck;
which is not only problematic from a resource consumption standpoint,
but seems to me to violate the spirit of make installcheck, because
what it's testing is not the installed postmaster but a local instance.

Can you confine the test to only occur in "make check" mode, not "make
installcheck", please?

regards, tom lane