Re: Maybe BF "timedout" failures are the client script's fault?
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: michael.banck@credativ.de, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-01-10T16:37:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > The patch seems reasonable on its face, but I doubt it's the issue. > Rather I think what's happening here is that a test is hanging silently > and lastcommand.log's mtime doesn't get updated, causing a misreporting > of the run duration. So in addition to the above I have added some code > to update that timestamp if the file exists (which should only be the > case with a timeout). Sounds reasonable. Thanks! regards, tom lane