Re: Why does the BF sometimes not dump regression.diffs?

On 3/1/21 4:05 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I saw this failure after a recent commit (though the next build
> succeeded, and I don't yet have any particular reason to believe that
> the commits it blamed are at fault, we'll see...):
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gombessa&dt=2021-03-01%2004%3A58%3A17
>
> Strangely, it didn't spit out the regression.diffs so I don't know
> anything more than "commit_ts failed". I emailed the owner asking for
> that log but I see now it's too late. I wonder if there is some
> scripting in there that doesn't work correctly on OpenBSD for whatever
> reason... I know that we *sometimes* get regression.diffs from
> failures in here, but I haven't tried to figure out the pattern (which
> animals etc). Here's a similar failure that does show the .diffs I
> wish I could see, same BF client version (11), on Windows:
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=fairywren&dt=2020-07-13%2000:47:47
>
>

The version numbering is a bit misleading on fairywren, which, as it's a
machine I control runs from a git checkout, which clearly is later than
REL_11 even though that's what the version string says. Commit 13d2143
fixed this. It was included in Release 12.

cheers

andrew

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