On 3/31/21 3:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Mar-31, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>> PostgresNode::start() doesn't work for servers older than version 10,
>> either. If I hack that function to sleep until the postmaster.pid
>> file exists, it works, but that is really ugly and is just to prove to
>> myself that it is a timing issue. There were a few commits in the
>> version 10 development cycle (cf, commit
>> f13ea95f9e473a43ee4e1baeb94daaf83535d37c) which changed how pg_ctl
>> works, though I haven't figured out yet exactly what the interaction
>> with PostgresNode would be. I'll keep looking.
> Do you need to do "pg_ctl -w" perhaps?
Probably. The buildfarm does this unconditionally and has done for a
very long time, so maybe we don't need a version test for it.
cheers
andrew
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