Re: A note about buildfarm ecpg-check

Tom Lane wrote:
> I see that the buildfarm script seems to be running ecpg-check pretty
> early in the sequence. Considering that the ecpg tests are still far
> from stable, this seems to be taking away the opportunity to learn as
> much as we can from a buildfarm run. Could we run the ecpg tests last?
>

We can, although I have tried to keep the order fairly logical. Are we
seeing so many ECPG failures that it's a major blocker? bustard has had
one ECPG failure in the last 5 days. We are currently only reporting
failures on OpenBSD and the mipsel box.

Anyway, I have made the change in CVS and buildfarm members can upgrade
to CVS version 1.69 of run_build.pl. I guess that would mainly matter
for the owners of the currently failing 3 boxes. If it proves to be
necessary beyond a small time frame I will cut a new release.

> An even better idea would be to teach the script about test dependencies
> so that it could run test steps even when an earlier-but-unrelated test
> had failed. But I'm sure that's a lot more work.
>
>
>

Yes. It might be possible with the modularisation work I'm
contemplating, but that's some way off, and I'm not going to hack it in
right now.

cheers

andrew