On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:12:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2022-04-14 19:45:15 -0700, Noah Misch wrote: > > I suspect the failure is somehow impossible in "check". Yesterday, I > > cranked > > up the number of locales, so there are now a lot more installcheck. Before > > that, each farm run had one "check" and two "installcheck". Those days saw > > ten installcheck failures, zero check failures. > > I notice that the buildfarm appears to run initdb with syncing enabled > ("syncing data to disk ... ok" in the initdb steps). Whereas pg_regress > uses --no-sync.
Yep. > I wonder if that's what makes the difference? Now that you reproduced > it, does it still reproduce with --no-sync added? It does; the last version of my script used "initdb -N ...". > Also worth noting that pg_regress doesn't go through pg_ctl... Hmmm.