Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:02 AM Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>
wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan:
> >> On Mar 22, 2024, at 4:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> How was it passing? The issue discussed in this thread has surely
> >> been there for a long time, and Wolfgang mentioned that he sees
> >> others.
> >
> > The buildfarm client has a switch that delays running regression tests
> until after the install stages.
>
> Hm. So while that switch makes the animal pass the build, it did hide
> exactly this problem. Not sure whether this switch should be used at
> all, then. Was this switch only implemented for the specific case of
> Alpine/musl or is there a different reason for it, as well?
>

Alpine was the main motivation, but it's also probably useful on Macs with
SIP enabled.

ISTR raising the Alpine issue back then (2018) but I can't find a reference
now.

cheers

andrew