Hi all,
I have run the TAP tests with an instance of Postgres locally set at
port 5432 on Windows, to notice that 001_start_stop.pl fails various
tests because the test tries to use the default port for the node
initialized with pg_ctl. The problem can get fixed easily by
assigning a random port number to that instance.
It could potentially become a problem if parallel TAP tests run in
parallel on Windows while initializing the node because of a port
conflict, but that's actually already a problem now for all the tests
as all nodes listen to 127.0.0.1 in this case. This cannot happen on
*nix simply because we use a unique unix domain path, so even if ports
conflict things are able to work.
Attached is a patch to fix this issue, that I would like to
back-patch down to 9.4 where the issue can show up.
Any objections?
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Michael