Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test
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Msg-id CA+hUKGK+nkoT6OO+WDTEYFZEQO3QeHdXTD8bkrAPB35EbdFnyg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > Just now, and also once 5-and-a-bit days ago, flaviventris failed like
> > this, as did filefish 41 days ago[1] (there may be more, I just
> > checked a random sample of InstallCheck-C failures accessible via the
> > web interface):
>
> This sort of thing has pretty much always happened.  I believe it is
> just down to the designed-in unreliability of the current stats collection
> mechanism.  We might be able to get rid of it if we go over to
> shared-memory stats, but I've yet to look at that patch :-(.  In the
> meantime I don't see any reason to think that anything's worse here
> than it has been for many years.

Does it imply that the kernel dropped a UDP packet to localhost?

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Thomas Munro
https://enterprisedb.com



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