Re: pg_regress.sh startup failure patch

Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> writes:
> Unfortunately, pg_regress.sh fails under Cygwin as follows:
> The attached patch "solves" the problem.

Why would it take more than 3 seconds to start the postmaster under
Cygwin?  Something awfully fishy about that, unless you're using
a 286 ...

I didn't much care for the arbitrary delay in the first place, and
raising it to 10 sec is even less palatable.  Perhaps

    until psql ...args... </dev/null 2>/dev/null
    do
        sleep 1
    done

although it might also be prudent to refuse to loop more than a couple
dozen times.

            regards, tom lane