Thread: A note about buildfarm ecpg-check

I see that the buildfarm script seems to be running ecpg-check pretty
early in the sequence.  Considering that the ecpg tests are still far
from stable, this seems to be taking away the opportunity to learn as
much as we can from a buildfarm run.  Could we run the ecpg tests last?

An even better idea would be to teach the script about test dependencies
so that it could run test steps even when an earlier-but-unrelated test
had failed.  But I'm sure that's a lot more work.
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> I see that the buildfarm script seems to be running ecpg-check pretty
> early in the sequence.  Considering that the ecpg tests are still far
> from stable, this seems to be taking away the opportunity to learn as
> much as we can from a buildfarm run.  Could we run the ecpg tests last?
>   

We can, although I have tried to keep the order fairly logical. Are we 
seeing so many ECPG failures that it's a major blocker?  bustard has had 
one ECPG failure in the last 5 days. We are currently only reporting 
failures on OpenBSD and the mipsel box.

Anyway, I have made the change in CVS and buildfarm members can upgrade 
to CVS version 1.69 of run_build.pl. I guess that would mainly matter 
for the owners of the currently failing 3 boxes. If it proves to be 
necessary beyond a small time frame I will cut a new release.

> An even better idea would be to teach the script about test dependencies
> so that it could run test steps even when an earlier-but-unrelated test
> had failed.  But I'm sure that's a lot more work.
>
>             
>   


Yes. It might be possible with the modularisation work I'm 
contemplating, but that's some way off, and I'm not going to hack it in 
right now.

cheers

andrew

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:38:27AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> We can, although I have tried to keep the order fairly logical. Are we 
> seeing so many ECPG failures that it's a major blocker?  bustard has had 
> one ECPG failure in the last 5 days. We are currently only reporting 
> failures on OpenBSD and the mipsel box.

The mipsel one is fixed too. So except for the OpenBSD strtod bug
ecpg-check seems to run cleanly on all machines. However, I plan to do
some more changes to the test suite. Nothing major, just trying to get
rid of the complex tests that test so many features at the same time and
divide them into several testcases. This might give us a red from time
to time, but hopefully nothing major.

Michael
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