Re: The real reason why TAP testing isn't ready for prime time

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On 2015-06-19 11:16:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> I wonder whether it's such a good idea for the postmaster to give
>>>> up waiting before all children are gone (postmaster.c:1722 in HEAD).
>
>>> I doubt it.
>
>> Seconded. It's pretty bad to possibly not be able to start again after
>> stopping it. I don't see the benefit in not waiting - sure, the
>> poastmaster exits faster, but postgres hasn't shut down at that point...
>
> Yeah.  I'll see about fixing this.  Hard to be sure if it will fix
> hamster's issue though.

I have re-enabled the TAP tests in hamster. What happens in the next
couple of days will be interesting to see.
-- 
Michael