Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2023-04-07 20:49:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> IPC::Run 0.98 is relatively new (2018), so I don't think it'd fly
>> to make that our new minimum version across-the-board.  I recommend
>> just setting up this one test to SKIP if IPC::Run is too old.

> Does the test actually take a while before it fails, or is it quick?

It times out at whatever your PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT is.  I waited
3 minutes the first time, and then reduced that to 20sec for the
rest of the tries ...

            regards, tom lane