Re: [HACKERS] psql & regress tests

wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
>     The  ugly  detail,  I'm currently running into, is that there
>     already seems to be a concurrency problem I  discovered  with
>     my  testing.  Occationally I get this into the postmaster log
>     for parallel executing tests:

> ERROR:  Bad boolean external representation 'XXX'
> FATAL 1:  SearchSysCache: recursive use of cache 10
> FATAL 2:  elog: error in postmaster or backend startup, giving up!
> pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> Server process (pid 9791) exited with status 512 at Fri Nov 19 03:17:09 1999
> Terminating any active server processes...

>     It happens during the first parallel group of 11  tests.  Not
>     allways, so it's timing critical. Outch.

In other words, you've already exposed a bug!  Right on!

Commit the thing, so more eyes can look for the problem.  I expect
you have found a pre-existing backend bug, not a problem in your
new regress test scaffold.
        regards, tom lane