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Tom Lane fab84c7787 Improve PostgresNode.pm's logic for detecting already-in-use ports. Buildfarm members bowerbird and jacana have shown intermittent "could not bind IPv4 socket" failures in the BinInstallCheck stage since mid-December, shortly after commits `1caef31d9e` and `9821492ee4` changed the logic for selecting which port to use in temporary installations. One plausible explanation is that we are randomly selecting ports that are already in use for some non-Postgres purpose. Although the code tried to defend against already-in-use ports, it used pg_isready to probe the port which is quite unhelpful: if some non-Postgres server responds at the given address, pg_isready will generally say "no response", leading to exactly the wrong conclusion about whether the port is free. Instead, let's use a simple TCP connect() call to see if anything answers without making assumptions about what it is. Note that this means there's no direct check for a conflicting Unix socket, but that should be okay because there should be no other Unix sockets in use in the temporary socket directory created for a test run. This is only a partial solution for the TCP case, since if the port number is in use for an outgoing connection rather than a listening socket, we'll fail to detect that. We could try to bind() to the proposed port as a means of detecting that case, but that would introduce its own failure modes, since the system might consider the address to remain reserved for some period of time after we drop the bound socket. Close study of the errors returned by bowerbird and jacana suggests that what we're seeing there may be conflicts with listening not outgoing sockets, so let's try this and see if it improves matters. It's certainly better than what's there now, in any case. Michael Paquier, adjusted by me to work on non-Windows as well as Windows		2016-04-24 15:31:45 -04:00
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examples	Update copyright for 2016	2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
isolation	Replace printf format %i by %d	2016-04-08 12:42:58 -04:00
locale	Fix omission of -X (--no-psqlrc) in some psql invocations.	2015-12-28 11:46:43 -05:00
mb	Revert "Fix broken multibyte regression tests."	2016-01-26 08:29:15 +09:00
modules	In recordExtensionInitPriv(), keep the scan til we're done with it	2016-04-15 21:57:15 -04:00
perl	Improve PostgresNode.pm's logic for detecting already-in-use ports.	2016-04-24 15:31:45 -04:00
recovery	Make regression test for multiple synchronous standbys more stable.	2016-04-15 13:58:14 +09:00
regress	Fix planner failure with full join in RHS of left join.	2016-04-21 20:05:58 -04:00
ssl	Clean the last few TAP suite tmp_check directories.	2016-02-24 23:41:54 -05:00
thread	Update copyright for 2016	2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Makefile	Add a test framework for recovery	2016-02-26 16:13:30 -03:00
README	Minor tweaks for new src/test/recovery	2016-02-29 18:16:59 -03:00

README

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure