Re: Kerberos test suite - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Kerberos test suite
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Msg-id adae00ed-aae0-0b83-859e-632bf234cc04@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Kerberos test suite  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On 3/5/18 21:08, Michael Paquier wrote:
> +my $kdc_port = int(rand() * 16384) + 49152;
> That may not be worth worrying as that's an ephemeral port range but it
> can make the test a bit unstable...

This is what we've been using in the other tests as well.  It's clearly
not optimal, but making it more robust in a platform-agnostic way seems
tricky.

> Perhaps the tests should be skipped on Windows or just produce an error?
> Like LDAP tests, libraries are supported on Windows but the hardcoded
> paths make things harder to handle there.

Hmm, why couldn't someone install MIT krb5 on Windows and give it a try?
 We don't need to block the platform outright.

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