Re: PostgreSQL BuildFarm Client Release 9

On 11/12/18 2:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Along with numerous fixes of minor bugs and a couple of not so minor
>> bugs, this release has the following features:
>> ...
>> * automatically rerun 3 hours after a git failure, useful on back
>> branches where commits can be infrequent
> Hm, I'm worried that this is mainly going to result in spamming the server
> with git-failure reports. From what I've seen, those usually don't go
> away by themselves; they need manual action to resolve, and that's often
> not promptly forthcoming.
>
>

If the git failure persists it will be spamming the server anyway. It's
when it stops failing and then doesn't see a git advance and hence
doesn't clear the error that this is trying to clear up.

cheers

andrew

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