Re: Cirrus-ci is lowering free CI cycles - what to do with cfbot, etc?

Hi,

On 2023-08-23 18:32:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > There are other potential uses for libpq in pg_regress though - I'd e.g. like
> > to have a "monitoring" session open, which we could use to detect that the
> > server crashed (by waiting for the FD to be become invalid). Where the
> > connection default issue could matter more?
> 
> Meh.  I don't find that idea compelling enough to justify adding
> restrictions on what test scenarios will work.  It's seldom hard to
> tell from the test output whether the server crashed.

I find it pretty painful to wade through a several-megabyte regression.diffs
to find the cause of a crash. I think we ought to use
restart_after_crash=false, since after a crash there's no hope for the tests
to succeed, but even in that case, we end up with a lot of pointless contents
in regression.diffs. If we instead realized that we shouldn't start further
tests, we'd limit that by a fair bit.

Greetings,

Andres Freund