Re: Possible fix for occasional failures on castoroides etc

On 2014-05-18 01:35:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >> On 2012-09-17 08:23:01 -0400, Dave Page wrote:
> >>> I've added MAX_CONNECTIONS=5 to both Castoroides and Protosciurus.
>
> >> I've just noticed (while checking whether backporting 4c8aa8b5aea caused
> >> problems) that this doesn't seem to have fixed the issue. One further
> >> thing to try would be to try whether tcp connections don't have the same
> >> problem.
>
> > I've added:
> > EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS => '--host=localhost',
> > to the build_env setting for both animals.
>
> According to
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=protosciurus&dt=2014-05-16%2014%3A27%3A58
> this did not fix the problem; however, the failure is
>
> ! psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> ! Is the server running locally and accepting
> ! connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.57345"?
>
> which shows that this configuration change did not actually have the
> desired effect of forcing the regression tests to be run across TCP.
> I'm too tired to check into what *would* force that.

I think that's just because EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS is fairly new
(19fa6161dd6ba85b6c88b3476d165745dd5192d9). No idea if there's a nice
way to pass options to the pg_regress invocations of buildfarm animals.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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