Re: installcheck-world concurrency issues

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: installcheck-world concurrency issues
Date: 2022-10-05 06:16:37
Message-ID: 2e9c3059-db19-92d4-9b56-22e7da8c5a68@enterprisedb.com
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On 04.10.22 01:41, Andres Freund wrote:
> BTW, shouldn't src/test/modules/unsafe_tests use the PG_TEST_EXTRA mechanism
> somehow? Seems not great to run it as part of installcheck-world, if we don't
> want to run it as part of installcheck.

I think there are different levels and kinds of unsafeness. The ssl and
kerberos tests start open server processes on your machine. The
modules/unsafe_tests just make a mess of your postgres instance. The
latter isn't a problem when run against a temp instance.

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