Re: Adding CI to our tree

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Adding CI to our tree
Date: 2021-12-15 15:21:24
Message-ID: 678495.1639581684@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 03:45:23PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2021-12-13 18:14:52 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm with Justin on this one. I would view a script trying to
>>> mess with /cores as a hostile act.

>> I'm not quite following. This is a ephemeral CI instance?

> As for myself, all I meant is that it's better to write it with zero sudos than
> one (for the same reason that it's better to write with one than with two).

What I'm concerned about is that it's unsafe to run the script in
any non-throwaway environment. That doesn't seem desirable.

regards, tom lane

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