Re: occasional ECPG failures on dikkop (FreeBSD)

Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-06T14:11:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 5/6/26 16:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
>> about a month ago dikkop started reporting occasional failures in ECPG
>> tests. I'm not very familiar with ecpg, and I've been unable to figure
>> this out so far, so I wonder if others might know ...
> 
> There's some related discussion in the ECPGprepared_statement()
> thread:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/75460b3c-255d-47eb-b889-d99de38e6758%40gmail.com#61d8d4544dd7beaffaf7ec67ecdd5cfc
> 
> I have no idea whether the bug that Andrew just identified explains
> dikkop's problem, though.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

Ah, I haven't noticed the last couple messagess, mentioning dikkop. Not
sure if it's the same issue - I guess we'll have to wait if the failures
go away once it gets fixed.

Still, it seems like a long-standing issue. It's curious dikkop started
failing only very recently, after the OS upgrade.

thanks

-- 
Tomas Vondra