Re: regresssion script hole

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The question isn't whether is succeeds, it's how long it takes to 
> succeed. When I increased the pg_regress timeout it actually went 
> through the whole regression test happily. I suspect we have 2 things 
> eating up the 60s timeout here: loading the timezone db and resolving 
> whatever it is we are trying to resolve.

The behavior of loading the whole TZ database was there for awhile
before anyone noticed; I believe it could only be responsible for a
few seconds.  So the failed DNS responses must be the problem.  Could
we get a ktrace with timestamps on the syscalls to confirm that?

Of course the $64 question is *why* is 8.0 trying to resolve that name,
particularly seeing that the later branches apparently aren't.
        regards, tom lane