Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests

> On 8 Apr 2023, at 00:35, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>>> On 7 Apr 2023, at 23:01, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> Staring at this I've been unable to figure out if there an underlying problem
>> here or a flaky testrun, since I can't reproduce it. Maybe the animal owner
>> (on cc) have any insights?
>
>> The test has passed on several different platforms in the buildfarm, including
>> Linux, Solaris, macOS, NetBSD, FreeBSD and other OpenBSD animals. It also
>> passed in an OpenBSD VM running with our Cirrus framework.
>
> prion and mantid have now failed with the same symptom. I don't
> see a pattern, but it's not OpenBSD-only. It will be interesting
> to see if the failure is intermittent or not on those animals.

It would be interesting to know how far in the pumped input they get, if they
time out on the first one with nothing going through? Will investigate further
tomorrow to see.

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Daniel Gustafsson