Re: Finding cause of test fails on the cfbot site

On 2/17/21 11:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> writes:
>> I saw that one of our commitfest entries (32/2914) is recently
>> reporting a fail on the cfbot site [1]. I thought this was all ok a
>> few days ago.
>> ...
>> Is there any other detailed information available anywhere, e.g.
>> logs?, which might help us work out what was the cause of the test
>> failure?
> AFAIK the cfbot doesn't capture anything beyond the session typescript.
> However, this doesn't look that hard to reproduce locally ... have you
> tried, using similar configure options to what that cfbot run did?
> Once you did reproduce it, there'd be logs under
> contrib/test_decoding/tmp_check/.
>
>             



yeah. The cfbot runs check-world which makes it difficult for it to know
which log files to show when there's an error. That's a major part of
the reason the buildfarm runs a much finer grained set of steps.


cheers


andrew


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