Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test

2019-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane wrote: >> This sort of thing has pretty much always happened. I believe it is >> just down to the designed-in unreliability of the current stats collection >> mechanism. We might be able to get rid of it if we go over to >> shared-

Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test

2019-04-05 Thread Thomas Munro
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Munro writes: > > Just now, and also once 5-and-a-bit days ago, flaviventris failed like > > this, as did filefish 41 days ago[1] (there may be more, I just > > checked a random sample of InstallCheck-C failures accessible via the > > web i

Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test

2019-04-05 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2019-04-05 18:19:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > We might be able to get rid of it if we go over to shared-memory > stats, but I've yet to look at that patch :-(. I did a few review cycles on it, and while I believe the concept is sound, I think it needs a good bit more time to mature. Not rea

Re: Intermittent failure in InstallCheck-C "stat" test

2019-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > Just now, and also once 5-and-a-bit days ago, flaviventris failed like > this, as did filefish 41 days ago[1] (there may be more, I just > checked a random sample of InstallCheck-C failures accessible via the > web interface): This sort of thing has pretty much always happe