On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:42, Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
I am not sure if there's anything very good we can do about the
problem of pg_regress misidentifying the postmaster it's managed to
connect to. A real solution would probably be much more trouble than
it's worth, anyway. However, it does seem like we ought to be able to
do something about two buildfarm critters defaulting to the same choice
of port number. The buildfarm infrastructure goes to great lengths to
pick nonconflicting port numbers for the "installed" postmasters it
runs; but we're ignoring all that effort and just using a hardwired
port number for "make check". This is dumb.
pg_regress does have a --port argument that can be used to override
that default. I don't know whether the buildfarm script calls
pg_regress directly or does "make check". If the latter, we'd need to
twiddle the Makefiles to allow a port number to get passed in. But
this seems well worthwhile to me.
Comments?
We just put in the possibility to name the client connections. Would it be interesting to be able to name the server installation itself?
