I wrote:
> One thing I'm eyeing now is that it looks like Noah is re-initdb'ing
> each time, whereas I'd just stopped and started the postmaster of
> an existing installation. That does not seem like it could matter
> but ...
Well, damn. I changed my script that way and it failed on the tenth
iteration (versus a couple hundred successful iterations the other
way). So somehow this is related to time-since-initdb, not
time-since-postmaster-start. Any ideas?
Anyway, I'm too tired to do more tonight, but now that I can reproduce it
I will stick some debugging logic in tomorrow. I no longer think we
should clutter the git repo with any more short-term hacks.
regards, tom lane
PS a bit later: I've not yet reproduced it a second time, so the
failure rate is unfortunately a lot less than one-in-ten. Still,
this eliminates the idea that there's some secret sauce in Noah's
build details.
