Re: [HACKERS] Failure in commit_ts tap tests

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> On 01/26/2017 03:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > It is really quite annoying that the buildfarm doesn't do what stock
> > tests do.  What about pushing a bit stronger for having these
> > optimizations as part of the standard build run, instead of being only
> > in the buildfarm client script?
> 
> There is nothing that the buildfarm does that's not a stock test. What
> it does is run the stock tests with USE_MODULE_DB=1 (which you can do
> too). That is something provided for in our Make files. The reason is
> that otherwise we constantly overwrite the regression database. That can
> make it a lot harder to go back after a buildfarm run and find errors.

There is a lot that you *can* do using the stock makefiles, but that
"make check-world" doesn't do.  Why aren't we using USE_MODULE_DB=1 in
"make check-world", is my question.

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