On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:03:04PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > On January 23, 2022 3:29:27 PM PST > >(a) Modify the tests so the affected animals can skip affected tests by > >setting an environment variable, named PG_TEST_HAS_WAL_READ_BUG or similar. > > Why not just detect the problem in the tap test and skip, rather than > requiring multiple buildfarm configs to be changed as well as the test > itself?
End users running PostgreSQL test suites to acceptance-test their stack should consider the affected stack unusable for PostgreSQL. Hence, I ruled out that approach, despite having implemented it at one point. Under some plausible set of goals, it is optimal.
