On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:03:04PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On January 23, 2022 3:29:27 PM PST
> >(a) Modify the tests so the affected animals can skip affected tests by
> >setting an environment variable, named PG_TEST_HAS_WAL_READ_BUG or similar.
>
> Why not just detect the problem in the tap test and skip, rather than requiring multiple buildfarm configs to be
changedas well as the test itself?
End users running PostgreSQL test suites to acceptance-test their stack should
consider the affected stack unusable for PostgreSQL. Hence, I ruled out that
approach, despite having implemented it at one point. Under some plausible
set of goals, it is optimal.