Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD
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Msg-id 51520DDB.1070901@dunslane.net
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In response to spoonbill vs. -HEAD  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
Responses Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD
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On 03/26/2013 02:50 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Hi all!
>
>
> I finally started to investigate why spoonbill stopped reporting to the
> buildfarm feedback about 2 months ago.
> It seems that the foreign-keys locking patch (or something commity very
> close to January 23th) broke it in a fairly annoying way - running the
> buildfarm script seems to
> consistently "stall" during the isolationtester part of the regression
> testing leaving the postgresql instance running causing all future
> buildfarm runs to fail...



There is some timeout code already in the buildfarm client. It was 
originally put there to help us when we got CVS hangs, a not infrequent 
occurrence in the early days, so it's currently only used if configured 
for the checkout phase, but it could easily be used to create a build 
timeout which would kill the whole process group if the timeout expired. 
It wouldn't work on Windows, and of course it won't solve whatever 
problem caused the hang in the first place, but it still might be worth 
doing.

cheers

andrew




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