Re: Brittleness in regression test setup

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> For some historic reasons, I have my local scripts set up so that they 
> build development instances using the hardcoded port 65432.  This will 
> cause a temp install regression test to attempt to use port 565432 which 
> will be rejected silently by pg_regress, which will then use its 
> hardcoded default 65432 (no relation to my 65432).

One thing we should do is have pg_regress.c, not the Makefile,
select the default port to use.  The concatenate-5 behavior is
just not intelligent enough.
        regards, tom lane