From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Idea for improving buildfarm robustness |
Date: | 2015-09-29 20:48:19 |
Message-ID: | 20150929204819.GK2573@alvherre.pgsql |
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Joe Conway wrote:
> On 09/29/2015 12:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > We could possibly add additional checks, like trying to verify that
> > pg_control has the same inode number it used to. But I'm afraid that
> > would add portability issues and false-positive hazards that would
> > outweigh the value.
>
> Not sure you remember the incident, but I think years ago that would
> have saved me some heartache ;-)
I remember it, but I'm not sure it would have helped you. As I recall,
your trouble was that after a reboot the init script decided to initdb
the mount point -- postmaster wouldn't have been running at all ...
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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