On 12/6/25 17:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
>> On 12/6/25 10:00, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
>>> though I can't see timeout-related changes in [4], probably something was
>>> changed in the environment during the upgrade...
>
>> Yeah, I noticed that too. But I have no idea what could have changed or
>> why - the only thing I updated is the buildfarm client :-(
>
> Comparing the configuration dumps from avocet's last successful run
> and its latest, I see that last successful shows
>
> 'wait_timeout' => 0
>
> but the failing run shows
>
> 'wait_timeout' => undef
>
> Per the comments in the sample config file:
>
> # max time in seconds allowed for a single branch run
> # undef means default, which is 4 hours. For unlimited specify 0
> wait_timeout => undef,
>
> I'd actually recommend a setting of a couple of days for these
> animals, rather than "0". We've been known to get BF animals
> into infinite loops, and if you use "0" then you will need to
> clean up such mistakes manually.
>
I'll try, but that's just the default in v20 of the buildfarm client (I
always get the new .sample and update it with the necessary changes,
keeping all the defaults).
regards
--
Tomas Vondra
