Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file within 5 seconds, and so the logic in commit 0bae3bc9be4a025df089f0a0c2f547fa538a97bc kicks in. Unfortunately, when this happens the postmaster has in fact sometimes started up, and the end result is that subsequent buildfarm runs will fail when they detect that there is already a postmaster listening on the port, and without manual intervention to kill the "rogue" postmaster this continues endlessly.
I can probably add some logic to the buildfarm script to try to detect this condition and kill an errant postmaster so subsequent runs don't get affected, but that seems to be avoiding a problem rather than fixing it. I'm not sure what we can do to improve it otherwise, though.
Thoughts? cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
