Re: Slightly bogus regression test for contrib/dblink

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com
Subject: Re: Slightly bogus regression test for contrib/dblink
Date: 2006-06-20 18:41:33
Message-ID: 25476.1150828893@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It looks to me like the diffs are consistent with the idea that the
>>> test is using a copy of dblink that predates this patch ...

>> I would think that the diffs would be significantly larger if that were
>> the case. In fact, when was PG_MODULE_MAGIC first made mandatory?

> Good point. So then why the failure?

What's even more interesting is that there are now three later runs of
HEAD on osprey, and none of them failed. So unless Remi's been fooling
with the environment on that machine, this was a one-shot irreproducible
failure. That's disturbing in a different way ...

http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=osprey&br=HEAD

regards, tom lane

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