Re: tap tests on older branches fail if concurrency is used

On 7 June 2017 at 13:39, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>>> when using
>>> $ cat ~/.proverc
>>> -j9
>>> some tests fail for me in 9.4 and 9.5.
>>
>> Weren't there fixes specifically intended to make that safe, awhile ago?
>
> 60f826c has not been back-patched. While this would fix parallel runs
> with make's --jobs, PROVE_FLAGS="-j X" would still fail.

Ah, that's why I didn't find it.

I think applying Michael's patch makes sense now, and if we decide to
backpatch PostgresNode (and I get the time to do it) we can clobber
that fix quite happily with the full backport. Thanks Michael for the
workaround.

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