Re: MinGW CI tasks fail / timeout

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: MinGW CI tasks fail / timeout
Date: 2026-03-26 14:46:19
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Hi,

On 2026-03-26 17:40:32 +0300, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> I noticed that MinGW CI tasks are currently failing and timing out
> [1]. It appears that this started after the IPC::Run package was
> updated on the MinGW CI image from: 'NJM/IPC-Run-20250809.0.tar.gz' to
> 'TODDR/IPC-Run-20260322.0.tar.gz' [2]. If I explicitly install
> NJM/IPC-Run-20250809.0.tar.gz, then MinGW CI passes again [3].
>
> I guess this PR [4] is responsible for the failures but I am not sure
> about the fix so I wanted to bring that topic to -hackers.

FWIW, to mitigate the impact I've for now disabled running the mingw tests on
the cfbot and postgres repos. That's obviously not a real fix, but it seemed
better than spuriously failing all CF entries.

Feels somewhat crazy to just make a compatibility breaking change like that in
IPC::Run?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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