Re: Cause of recent buildfarm failures on hamerkop

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if we should just write this off as pilot error, or if we
>> should try to make the regression tests proof against such things. If
>> the latter, how exactly?

> I don't think we need to make them proof against it. But it wouldn't
> hurt to have a check that threw a predictable error when it happens.
> E.g. a first step in the regression tests that just verifies what kind
> of line endings are in a file. Could maybe be as simple as checking
> the size of the file?

Yeah, it would be easy to add a query that prints the large object's size
to the currently-failing test. That seems like a good idea
independently of whether we add a .gitattributes file as Aidan suggests.

regards, tom lane