Re: Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

Tom Lane wrote:

>I see one occurrence in the 8.1 branch on hyena, but the failure
>probability seems to have jumped way up in HEAD since we put in the
>C-coded pg_regress. This lends weight to the idea that it's a
>timing-related issue, because pg_regress.c is presumably much faster
>at forking off a parallel gang of psqls than the shell script was;
>and it's hard to see what else about the pg_regress change could be
>affecting the psqls' ability to connect once forked.
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>We probably need to get some Solaris experts involved in diagnosing
>what's happening. Judging by the buildfarm results you should be able
>to replicate it fairly easily by doing "make installcheck-parallel"
>repeatedly.
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I will refer this to those experts - my Solaris-fu is a tad rusty these
days.

cheers

andrew