Tom Lane wrote: > The current buildfarm webpages make it easy to see when a branch tip > is seriously broken, but it's not very easy to investigate transient > failures, such as a regression test race condition that only > materializes once in awhile. I would like to have a way of seeing > just the failed build attempts across all machines running a given > branch. Ideally it would be possible to tag failures as to the cause > (if known) and/or symptom pattern, and then be able to examine just > the ones without known cause or having similar symptoms. > > I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable to try to do with webpages > similar to what we've got. But the data is all in a database AIUI, > so another possibility is to do this work via SQL. That'd require > having the ability to pull the information from the buildfarm database > so someone else could manipulate it. > > So I guess the first question is can you make the build data available, > and the second is whether you're interested in building more flexible > views or just want to let someone else do that. Also, if anyone does > make an effort to tag failures, it'd be good to somehow push that data > back into the master database, so that we don't end up duplicating such > work.
If the data is already there and just not represented, just let me know exactly what you want and I will implement pages for that data happily. Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
