Re: Why doesn't src/backend/port/win32/socket.c implement bind()?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't src/backend/port/win32/socket.c implement bind()?
Date: 2016-04-13 13:33:14
Message-ID: 19658.1460554394@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> If there's other stuff using high ports on a particular buildfarm machine,
>> you'd expect occasional random test failures due to this. The observed
>> fact that some buildfarm critters are much more prone to this type of
>> failure than others is well explained by this hypothesis.

> Each test run uses its own custom unix_socket_directories, PGHOST is
> enforced to use it, and all the port tests go through that as well.

By that argument, we don't need the free-port-searching code on Unix at
all. But this discussion is mostly about Windows machines.

regards, tom lane

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