Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Another way would be to have pg_regress honour an environment var like
> PG_REGRESS_PORT, which the buildfarm script could use.
Yeah, that would work too. (Is it portable to Windows, though?)
I prefer the change-the-default approach mainly because it wouldn't
require any documentation, whereas it'd be a bit hard to argue that
environment variables etc shouldn't be documented ...
regards, tom lane