Re: GNU/Hurd portability patches

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 09:00:00AM +0300, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> 02.07.2025 02:53, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Catching up on this thread after-the-fact, specifically looking at
> > 29213636e6cd as I did the original check tweaked here for O_RDONLY.
> > Agreed that a backpatch should be OK as done.  The buildfarm looks OK
> > currently.
> 
> Three months later we can see a number of failures produced by that
> animal on several branches, e.g. [1]:
> timed out after 3600 secs

Right, I've noticed them as well of course, but did not have time to
take a closer look yet. This timeout in test_shm_mq happens on 32bit
hurd-i386 as well, btw.

> It's not that easy to see a backtrace of the running processes on that OS,
> but with some debug logging (attached), I can see that the test backend
> process or shm_mq background worker just gets stuck shortly after poll().

Thanks for taking a deeper look.

> So it seems to me that Hurd is not mature enough yet to test Postgres.

That is a bit harsh; this issue should be looked into, but I would not
say it is not mature enough to test Postgres.


Michael