Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If there's other stuff using high ports on a particular buildfarm machine,
>> you'd expect occasional random test failures due to this. The observed
>> fact that some buildfarm critters are much more prone to this type of
>> failure than others is well explained by this hypothesis.
> Each test run uses its own custom unix_socket_directories, PGHOST is
> enforced to use it, and all the port tests go through that as well.
By that argument, we don't need the free-port-searching code on Unix at
all. But this discussion is mostly about Windows machines.
regards, tom lane