From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: contrib/sepgsql regression tests have been broken for months
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:29:46 -0400
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On 10/29/25 19:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> I poked around in the buildfarm client and was surprised to
> find that the old TestSepgsql.pm module does in fact expect
> to have sudo privileges, and it seems to install, enable,
> and eventually remove the sepgsql-regtest kernel module.
>
> I thought we were trying to get rid of that requirement though.
> (For sure, you won't ever see me running the buildfarm
> client under a sudo-capable account.) I think the new idea
> is to leave the module installed and active, which is kind
> of problematic if we want to also use TestSepgsql.pm in the
> back branches.
>
> I also don't quite understand how 001_sepgsql.pl's "checking for
> sepgsql-regtest policy" test is passing if the previous
> TestSepgsql.pm run removed that module ...
I suppose one solution is to create a new buildfarm animal and then use
rhino only for <= pg17 and <rhino-prime> only for pg18+
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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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