Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:36:22AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> At least from my perspective, it would be good if there were a way to
>> run the regression tests without any use of TCP ports.
> Do you see a possibility to select what test should be run? Maybe no tcp
> connections by default but with an additional make-target "checktcp"?
That would work for me.
Note there are other reasons besides my Red-Hat-specific problem for not
wanting to enable TCP connections during regression tests, for instance
* on some platforms they will fail due to aggressive kernel packet
filtering
* one might not care to expose a postmaster running with auth-method
"trust" to the network, even for just a few seconds.
regards, tom lane