Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 8:45 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Ugh, no I never run that test either. Will fix.
> Is there a particular reason we don't run it on the buildfarm, at
> least on some animals? Seems like that would be a much better way of
> finding these problems...
IIUC, the reason it's not run by default is that opening up a port
on localhost is insecure on multi-user systems. While that might
be a problem for buildfarm animals too, the ones that are running
things like the SSL checks already have the same hazard. Seems
like we could add a buildfarm client option to run this test.
Or we could just flush the test. It's not very clear to me what
coverage it's adding.
regards, tom lane