Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Just now, and also once 5-and-a-bit days ago, flaviventris failed like
> > this, as did filefish 41 days ago[1] (there may be more, I just
> > checked a random sample of InstallCheck-C failures accessible via the
> > web interface):
>
> This sort of thing has pretty much always happened. I believe it is
> just down to the designed-in unreliability of the current stats collection
> mechanism. We might be able to get rid of it if we go over to
> shared-memory stats, but I've yet to look at that patch :-(. In the
> meantime I don't see any reason to think that anything's worse here
> than it has been for many years.

Does it imply that the kernel dropped a UDP packet to localhost?

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