On 2022-11-19 Sa 09:33, Tom Lane wrote: > Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@enterprisedb.com> writes: >> On 11/19/22 14:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >>> On 2022-11-19 Sa 05:34, Tomas Vondra wrote: >>>> I wonder if it'd make sense to have some simple & optional alerting >>>> based on how long ago the machine reported the last result. Send e-mail >>>> if there was no report for a month or so would be enough. >>> This has been part of the buildfarm for a very long time. See the alerts >>> section of the config file. >> I don't think alerting from the client would catch those cases, but >> maybe it's a rare issue and I'm overthinking it. > Those alerts are sent by the buildfarm server, not the client. > > That has a failure mode of its own: if an animal goes down hard, > the server is left with its last-seen alert setup. The only > way to not get nagged permanently is to ask Andrew to intervene > manually. (Ask me how I know.) > >
True for now. The next release will have a utility command to disable/enable alerts. The required server changes have already been made. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
