Re: Brittleness in regression test setup

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I played around a little with signal handling to collect the dying 
> postmaster and report and error; see attached rough patch.  I'm not 
> exactly understanding how this works though.  I would expect lots of 
> psql zombies for example, because those go through the same 
> spawn_process() call, but I'm not seeing any.

That's because wait_for_tests wait()s for them.

AFAICS the only way you'd end up with a zombie postmaster is if pg_ctl
stop fails, but I'm failing to understand why that's likely to happen.
        regards, tom lane