Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pkufs-0001X3-97 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:35:16 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pkufr-0004za-2U for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:35:15 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pkufq-0004zR-PD for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:35:14 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1pkufn-001WX6-Vp for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:35:14 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 337MZ6Z03249819; Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:35:06 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Daniel Gustafsson cc: Andres Freund , Andrew Dunstan , PostgreSQL Hackers , Melanie Plageman , Amit Kapila , mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com Subject: Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests In-reply-to: <2D290816-4B8A-426F-84D0-90B38EB891B4@yesql.se> References: <20230317225855.v6a43tnham47uwyn@awork3.anarazel.de> <82A3E4C0-BD55-4506-9C47-5BBC3258EB59@yesql.se> <20230402213758.dkh6exwrh2ehu4oh@awork3.anarazel.de> <65FA8FF3-62A6-47E8-9359-131376921D92@yesql.se> <9b09ded4-b7b5-1ae9-3f58-a10af2e0a03f@dunslane.net> <20230407150413.fbeuutsalcvexoxf@awork3.anarazel.de> <414A86BD-986B-48A7-A1E4-EEBCE5AF08CB@yesql.se> <2D290816-4B8A-426F-84D0-90B38EB891B4@yesql.se> Comments: In-reply-to Daniel Gustafsson message dated "Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:59:44 +0200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3249817.1680906906.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3249818.1680906906@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> On 7 Apr 2023, at 23:01, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > Staring at this I've been unable to figure out if there an underlying pr= oblem > here or a flaky testrun, since I can't reproduce it. Maybe the animal o= wner > (on cc) have any insights? > The test has passed on several different platforms in the buildfarm, inc= luding > Linux, Solaris, macOS, NetBSD, FreeBSD and other OpenBSD animals. It al= so > passed in an OpenBSD VM running with our Cirrus framework. prion and mantid have now failed with the same symptom. I don't see a pattern, but it's not OpenBSD-only. It will be interesting to see if the failure is intermittent or not on those animals. > Unless there are objections raised I propose leaving it in for now, and = I will > return to it tomorrow after some sleep, and install OpenBSD 6.9 to see i= f it's > reproducible. Agreed, we don't need a hasty revert here. Better to gather data. regards, tom lane