Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

Dave Page wrote:
> This was another occurance of the strange create index failure on
> Narwhal - unfortunately, despite having 'keep_error_builds' => 1 in my
> BF config it seems to have removed the tree so I can't get the dump that
> Tom wanted.
>
> Does anyone know why the keep_error_builds option didn't work in this
> case? Or have I misinterpreted it's meaning?
>

Well, "anyone" will usually be me ;-)

To the best of my knowledge and belief it does work. This is the code it
should cause to be executed:

my $timestr = strftime "%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S", localtime($now);
move("$pgsql", "pgsqlkeep.$timestr");
move("inst", "instkeep.$timestr") if (-d "inst") ;

Please see if you can trap the script stdout/stderr somewhere so that next
time it fails you can send it to me.

How exactly do you have the buildfarm runs automated? Maybe that does a
little cleaning of its own?

cheers

andrew