Re: installcheck-world concurrency issues

Hi,

On 2022-10-05 08:16:37 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 04.10.22 01:41, Andres Freund wrote:
> > BTW, shouldn't src/test/modules/unsafe_tests use the PG_TEST_EXTRA mechanism
> > somehow?  Seems not great to run it as part of installcheck-world, if we don't
> > want to run it as part of installcheck.
> 
> I think there are different levels and kinds of unsafeness. The ssl and
> kerberos tests start open server processes on your machine.  The
> modules/unsafe_tests just make a mess of your postgres instance.  The latter
> isn't a problem when run against a temp instance.

I agree - but I suspect our definition of danger is reversed. For me breaking
an existing cluster is a lot more likely to incur "real world" danger than
starting a throway instance listening to tcp on localhost...

Greetings,

Andres Freund