Re: Intermittent stats test failures on buildfarm

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Rocco Altier" <RoccoA(at)Routescape(dot)com> writes:
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>>Also, kookaburra (AIX) has a problem with the stats test as well.
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>kookaburra's problem is entirely different, not intermittent in the
>least. The error diff shows that stats collection is off, and its
>postmaster log says
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>LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Permission denied
>LOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of working socket
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>I have no idea what's causing that --- the only reason I know of for
>EACCES from bind() is trying to bind to a privileged port number, and
>one hopes we're not doing that.
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The other things that's rather odd is that it's failing at the
installcheck stage, which means it just passed this same test moments
before are the check stage. Installcheck failures in buildfarm should
always be regarded suspiciously.

cheers

andrew