On 6/19/16 5:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Depending on what the percentage actually is, maybe we could treat
> this like the "random" test, and allow a failure to be disregarded
> overall? But that doesn't seem very nice either, in view of our
> increasing reliance on automated testing. If "random" were failing
> 90% of the time on some buildfarm critters, that would probably
> indicate a real problem, but we'd likely not realize it for a long time.
I think this test would only fail if it runs out of workers, and that
would only happen in an installcheck run against a server configured in
a nonstandard way or that is doing something else -- which doesn't
happen on the buildfarm.
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