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Subject: Re: snapbuild woes
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 13:02:07 -0400
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-05-01 12:32:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But quite aside from the question of whether we can afford the cycles,
>> it seems like the wrong approach. IMO the buildfarm is mainly for
>> verifying portability, not for trying to prove that race-like
>> conditions don't exist. In most situations we're going out of our way
>> to ensure reproduceability of tests we add to the buildfarm sequence;
>> but it seems like this is looking for irreproducible results.
> Yea, I wondered about that upthread as well. But the tests are quite
> useful nonetheless. Wonder about adding them simply as a separate
> target.
I have no objection to adding more tests as a non-default target.
regards, tom lane
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