Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 6/22/21 11:02 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:18:42AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> On 6/22/21 2:42 AM, Noah Misch wrote: >>> I was wondering about suggesting some kind of official warning, but I guess the manual already covers it with this 10 year old notice. I

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-22 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:18:42AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 6/22/21 2:42 AM, Noah Misch wrote: > > I was wondering about suggesting some kind of > >> official warning, but I guess the manual already covers it with this > >> 10 year old notice. I don't know much about Windows or Cygwin so

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 6/22/21 10:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: >> It's worth pointing out that Cygwin psql is built with readline, which >> makes it rather nicer to use than the Native builds. We still have this >> in configure.ac: >> >> # readline on MinGW has problems with backslashes in psql a

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-22 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > It's worth pointing out that Cygwin psql is built with readline, which > makes it rather nicer to use than the Native builds. We still have this > in configure.ac: > > # readline on MinGW has problems with backslashes in psql and other bugs. > # This is particularly a prob

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 6/22/21 2:42 AM, Noah Misch wrote: > I was wondering about suggesting some kind of >> official warning, but I guess the manual already covers it with this >> 10 year old notice. I don't know much about Windows or Cygwin so I'm >> not sure if it needs updating or not, but I would guess that th

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-21 Thread Thomas Munro
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM Noah Misch wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:52:03PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > > While reading a list of recent build farm assertion failures I learned that > > this is still broken in Cygwin 3.2, and eventually found my way back > > to this thread. > > Interes

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-21 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:52:03PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:21 PM Noah Misch wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > > > > postmaster algorithms rely on the PG_SETMASK() calls

Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

2021-06-21 Thread Thomas Munro
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:21 PM Noah Misch wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > > > postmaster algorithms rely on the PG_SETMASK() calls preventing that. > > > Without > > > such protection, duplicate bgwo