Greetings,
* Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > > Push, thanks again!
> >
> > Why'd you only change HEAD? Isn't the test equally fragile in the
> > back branches?
>
> Following on from this after some additional cross-platform testing,
> turns out there's other options we should be disabling in these tests to
> avoid depending on DNS for the test.
>
> Attached is another patch which, for me at least, seems to prevent the
> tests from causing any DNS requests to happen. This also means that the
> tests run in a reasonable time even in cases where DNS is entirely
> broken (the resolver set in /etc/resolv.conf doesn't respond).
>
> Barring objections, my plan is to commit this change soon and to
> back-patch both patches to supported branches.
Done.
Thanks!
Stephen
