Re: spoonbill is failing citext test

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Maybe we should pass -a to diff so that it displays the difference even
>> if it thinks the file is binary.
> 
> Unfortunately not portable:
> 
> $ /usr/bin/diff -a foo bar
> /usr/bin/diff: illegal option -- a
>         usage: diff [ -C n ] [ -S name ] [ -bcefhilnrstw ] dir1 dir2
>                 diff [-C n ] [ -bcefhintw ] file1 file2
>                 diff [ -D string ] [ -biw ] file1 file2
> 
> Perhaps Stefan can run the test manually and get us a readable diff.

well what we are looking at here are actually two issues - one is the 
regression failure - diff -a produces:

http://www.kaltenbrunner.cc/files/citext.diff.txt

the other problem is that each of those failures leaves spoonbill with a  running postgresql instance that causes a
followup failure with the 
 
next buildfarm run because there is not enough shared memory left for 
another instance ...


Stefan