Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

Dave Page wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>> So I now state fairly confidently that baiji is failing to overwrite
>> *any* of the installation tree, /share and /bin both, and instead is
>> testing an installation dating from sometime between May 1 and May 11.
>>
>
> Close. There was an Msys build from the 9th running on port 5432.
>
> So, it seems there are a couple of issues here:
>
> 1) There appears to be no way to specify the default port number in the
> MSVC build. The buildfarm passes it to configure for regular builds,
> which obviously isn't run in VC++ mode, thus leaving the build on 5432.
>
> 2) VC++ and Msys builds will both happily start on the same port at the
> same time. The first one to start listens on 5432 until it shuts down,
> at which point the second server takes over seamlessly! It doesn't
> matter which is started first - it's as if Windows is queuing up the
> listens on the port.
>
> Confusingly, the similar behaviour is reproducible on XP Pro, except the
> connection seems to go to the last server started, instead of the first!
>
>
>

I'll look at the port mess.

Are you running 2 buildfarm members on the same machine? If so, you
should look at using the multi-root factility which is explicitly
designed to avoid clashes of this sort.

cheers

andrew