Re: build farm machine using mixed results

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Frankly, I have had enough failures of parallel make that I think doing 
> this would generate a significant number of non-repeatable failures (I 
> had one just the other day that took three invocations of make to get 
> right). So I'm not sure doing this would advance us much, although I'm 
> open to persuasion.

Really?  I routinely use -j4 for building, and it's been a long time
since I've seen failures.  I can believe that for instance "make check"
in contrib would have a problem running in parallel, but the build
process per se seems reliable enough from here.
        regards, tom lane