Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:12:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-04-14 19:45:15 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > I suspect the failure is somehow impossible in "check".  Yesterday, I cranked
> > up the number of locales, so there are now a lot more installcheck.  Before
> > that, each farm run had one "check" and two "installcheck".  Those days saw
> > ten installcheck failures, zero check failures.
> 
> I notice that the buildfarm appears to run initdb with syncing enabled
> ("syncing data to disk ... ok" in the initdb steps).  Whereas pg_regress
> uses --no-sync.

Yep.

> I wonder if that's what makes the difference? Now that you reproduced
> it, does it still reproduce with --no-sync added?

It does; the last version of my script used "initdb -N ...".

> Also worth noting that pg_regress doesn't go through pg_ctl...

Hmmm.