| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Brittleness in regression test setup |
| Date: | 2008-11-27 12:23:27 |
| Message-ID: | 492E913F.8070207@gmx.net |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Well, duh, the checking is actually pretty simple. We just try to
>> connect with psql to the candidate port number before starting our own
>> postmaster and see if anyone is already there.
>
> But what if something else is using the port? I think you could attempt
> a bare connect().
Well, that goes beyond the scope of my original problem, which is that
the regression tests will silently run against a different installation.
If you run psql against a non-PostgreSQL server, you will hopefully
see more obvious failures. We could add this in the future, if there
are complaints from the field.
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