Re: Why is infinite_recurse test suddenly failing?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Hm, I just noticed:
>                                        'HEAD' => [
>                                                    'force_parallel_mode = regress'
>                                                  ]

Oooh, I didn't see that.

> on all those animals. So it's not necessarily the case that HEAD and
> backbranch runs are behaving all that identical.  Note that isn't a
> recent config change, so it's not an explanation as to why they started
> to fail only recently.

No, but it does point at another area of the code in which a relevant
change could've occurred.

While we're looking at this --- Mark, if you could install gdb
on your buildfarm hosts, that would be really handy.  I think that's
the only extra thing the buildfarm script needs to extract stack
traces from core dumps.  We'd likely already know where the problem
is if we had a stack trace ...

            regards, tom lane