On mån, 2012-01-02 at 17:27 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 01/02/2012 04:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On mån, 2012-01-02 at 15:55 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> On 01/02/2012 03:12 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> pg_regress: Replace exit_nicely() with exit() plus atexit() hook
> >>>
> >> This appears to have broken the buildfarm.
> > I think you mean it has caused the build to fail on some buildfarm
> > members. AFAICT, the buildfarm itself is still intact.
>
> This is hardly the first use of this idiom.
But it's about as helpful as a bug report saying "help it's broken".
> > I think there is some room for improvement there:
> >
> > - Why is the isolation test not part of check-world/installcheck-world?
>
>
> The buildfarm does not use the -world targets, for several reasons,
> including:
That was not my question. I run check-world/installcheck-world locally,
and if the isolation test had been part of this, this problem wouldn't
have happened.
> > - Could we get the buildfarm server to send out emails whenever a build
> > fails?
> This facility has been there for years
Cool, maybe it could be advertised on buildfarm.postgresql.org. I
couldn't see any link leading from there to anywhere near the mailing
lists.