Re: Random make check failures

Steve Nicolai <snicolai@mac.com> writes:
> I'm seeing random failures in the parallel tests run by
> "make check".  Sometimes (40% or so) all tests will succeed.
> The rest of the time, I will get one or more failures.

> The specific failures are connection failures:

> ! psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> !       Is the postmaster running locally
> !       and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.65432'?

> I'm running on Solaris 8, with the 2nd update installed.

We've heard reports that this goes away if you tweak the pg_regress
script to use TCP rather than Unix-socket connections (look for the
bit that forces unix_sockets=no).  Nobody seems to have any idea why
Solaris has a problem with Unix-socket connections ...
        regards, tom lane