| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Postgresql Hackers Mailinglist <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD |
| Date: | 2013-03-26 21:18:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20419.1364332722@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> There is some timeout code already in the buildfarm client. It was
> originally put there to help us when we got CVS hangs, a not infrequent
> occurrence in the early days, so it's currently only used if configured
> for the checkout phase, but it could easily be used to create a build
> timeout which would kill the whole process group if the timeout expired.
> It wouldn't work on Windows, and of course it won't solve whatever
> problem caused the hang in the first place, but it still might be worth
> doing.
+1 --- at least then we'd get reports of failures, rather than the
current behavior where the animal just stops reporting.
regards, tom lane
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