Re: contrib/sepgsql regression tests have been broken for months

On 2025-11-01 Sa 8:50 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 10/31/25 15:48, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>>> On 10/29/25 19:36, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> ... I think the new idea
>>>> is to leave the module installed and active, which is kind
>>>> of problematic if we want to also use TestSepgsql.pm in the
>>>> back branches.
>>
>>> I suppose one solution is to create a new buildfarm animal and then
>>> use rhino only for <= pg17 and <rhino-prime> only for pg18+
>>
>> It looks like it'd work to revert to using TestSepgsql.pm in all
>> branches.  You'd need to remove 'sepgsql' from PG_TEST_EXTRA so
>> that v18/master don't try to run the conflicting 001_sepgsql.pl
>> tests.
>
> I'm not clear on whether this involves just undoing the recent changes
> I made, or if the buildfarm code itself needs changes.
>
> FWIW I did this part:
>> remove 'sepgsql' from PG_TEST_EXTRA
>
> But what about "--enable-tap-tests"? That makes the full buildfarm
> cycle across all branches take something like 2.5 hours. I removed
> that part for now at least.
>
>> We need a better idea about how the new test method can coexist
>> with the old one, but for now I'd just like rhino to be running
>> one or the other successfully ...
>
> ok, back to the original configuration (although now with the latest
> buildfarm client)

Can we just disable the cleanup stage of the buildfarm module? Then the
semodule would not be uninstalled.

cheers

andrew

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