On 08/11/2010 04:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Another way would be to have pg_regress honour an environment var like
>> PG_REGRESS_PORT, which the buildfarm script could use.
> Yeah, that would work too. (Is it portable to Windows, though?)
Should be
> I prefer the change-the-default approach mainly because it wouldn't
> require any documentation, whereas it'd be a bit hard to argue that
> environment variables etc shouldn't be documented ...
>
>
Yeah. The other advantage is that we would not need to wait until we had
got everyone to update their versions of the buildfarm code. So I agree
this is the nicest solution.
cheers
andrew