Re: Regression tests versus the buildfarm environment

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regression tests versus the buildfarm environment
Date: 2010-08-11 15:48:37
Message-ID: 6634.1281541717@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On ons, 2010-08-11 at 09:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I don't know why anyone would think that "a random number" would
>> offer any advantage here. I'd use the postmaster PID, which is
>> guaranteed to be unique across the space that you're worried about.
>> In fact, you could implement this off the existing postmaster.pid,
>> no need for any new file. What's lacking is the pg_ping protocol.

> Why not just compare pg_backend_pid() with postmaster.pid?

How's that help? pg_backend_pid isn't going to return the postmaster's
PID ... maybe we could add a new function that does return the
postmaster's PID, though.

regards, tom lane

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