Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests
Date: 2023-04-07 22:35:06
Message-ID: 3249818.1680906906@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 7 Apr 2023, at 23:01, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> Staring at this I've been unable to figure out if there an underlying problem
> here or a flaky testrun, since I can't reproduce it. Maybe the animal owner
> (on cc) have any insights?

> The test has passed on several different platforms in the buildfarm, including
> Linux, Solaris, macOS, NetBSD, FreeBSD and other OpenBSD animals. It also
> passed in an OpenBSD VM running with our Cirrus framework.

prion and mantid have now failed with the same symptom. I don't
see a pattern, but it's not OpenBSD-only. It will be interesting
to see if the failure is intermittent or not on those animals.

> Unless there are objections raised I propose leaving it in for now, and I will
> return to it tomorrow after some sleep, and install OpenBSD 6.9 to see if it's
> reproducible.

Agreed, we don't need a hasty revert here. Better to gather data.

regards, tom lane

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