Re: [HACKERS] Continuous buildfarm failures on hamster with bin-check

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> That's the point I am trying to make upthread: slow buildfarm animals
> should have minimal impact on core code modifications. We could for
> example have one environment variable that lists all the parameters to
> modify in a single string and appends them at the end of
> postgresql.conf. But honestly I don't think that this is necessary if
> there is only one variable able to define a base directory for
> temporary statistics as the real bottleneck comes from there at least
> in the case of hamster.

FWIW, I'm a bit suspicious of relocating the temp stats directory as
being a reliable fix for this.  It looks to me like hamster isn't that
much slower than gaur/pademelon, ie the same machine that was my primary
development machine for well over a decade, and on which I have NEVER
seen a "stats collector not responding" failure.  Plus, if hamster's
main storage is SSD, that seems unlikely to be slower than the spinning
rust in gaur/pademelon.  So I can't escape the suspicion that something
else is going on there.  Seemingly-unexplainable stats collector problems
have been a bugaboo for a long time ...
        regards, tom lane