Re: Brittleness in regression test setup

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Brittleness in regression test setup
Date: 2008-11-14 16:50:31
Message-ID: 28469.1226681431@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> For some historic reasons, I have my local scripts set up so that they
> build development instances using the hardcoded port 65432. This will
> cause a temp install regression test to attempt to use port 565432 which
> will be rejected silently by pg_regress, which will then use its
> hardcoded default 65432 (no relation to my 65432).

One thing we should do is have pg_regress.c, not the Makefile,
select the default port to use. The concatenate-5 behavior is
just not intelligent enough.

regards, tom lane

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