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From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 18:54:20 +0300
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Subject: Re: MinGW CI tasks fail / timeout
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Hi,

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 at 17:46, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

The version of IPC::Run is pinned to 'NJM/IPC-Run-20250809.0' on the
MinGW image [1]. I tested the new MinGW image and confirmed that CI
passes [2]. I think we can re-enable the MinGW CI task on the CFBot
and Postgres repos.


[1] https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images/pull/139
[2] https://cirrus-ci.com/build/4605203913113600

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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft