Re: spoonbill is failing citext test

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> 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 follow up failure with 
> the next buildfarm run because there is not enough shared memory left 
> for another instance ...
>
>
>

Why should it leave a running postgresql instance?

cheers

andrew