Tom Lane wrote:
>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Note that because of the way the buildfarm script works, this failure was
>>masking the seg errno bogosity. Maybe I should reverse the test order to
>>make contrib before running and regression tests.
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>Seems like that'd just mask a different set of failures.
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Yeah. I think I'd be more concerned by core regression failures than
contrib build failures - especially as they are often likely to have
more far reaching consequences.
>Is it practical to teach the script to run the tests that depend only on
>what you were able to build? I guess reporting the results would get
>more complicated ...
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Not easily. It's really not much more on the client side than an
automation layer over existing build and test infrastructure. The script
itself has very little intelligence.
cheers
andrew
