Re: Windows buildfarm failures

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Windows buildfarm failures
Date: 2007-01-19 18:47:50
Message-ID: 45B11256.3070008@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Perhaps we could extend pg_regress to allow "--max-connections=auto"
> which would instruct it to set its connection limit to the server's
> actual max_connections minus superuser reserved slots (and probably
> minus a couple more to allow for backend shutdown time etc). Then the
> buildfarm could use that, while we'd leave the behavior alone for normal
> manual regression tests.
>
>

This seems needlessly complex. We can tolerate occasional intermittent
failures on buildfarm, and if they are persistent there is already a
configurable rate limiting mechanism available.

cheers

andrew

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