On 07/25/2017 11:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 07/25/2017 11:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> What I'm on about is that jacana still succeeds entirely, more than half
>>> the time. If this is a handle-duplication problem, how could it ever
>>> succeed?
>> No, it hangs 100% of the time. The only time you see a result at all is
>> if I manually intervene. The pg_ctl test is thus currently disabled on
>> jacana.
> Oh. So when was the last time it worked? And why do the buildfarm
> archives contain apparently-successful log_stage entries for pg_ctl-check
> on jacana, up through yesterday when I looked?
>
>
There was a buildfarm bug, since corrected, which was not properly
picking up errors in a corner case. You will see the errors if you look
at all the logs for pg_ctl-check from 12 days back if they exist. The
last known actual good run of this test was 33 days ago, i.e. 2017-06-22
cheers
andrew
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