Re: Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> It seems that these days 'make check' creates a directory in /tmp
>> called /tmp/pg_regress-RANDOMSTUFF.  Listening on TCP ports is
>> disabled, and the socket goes inside this directory with a name like
>> .s.PGSQL.PORT.  You can connect with psql -h
>> /tmp/pg_regress-RANDOMSTUFF -p PORT, but not over TCP.  This basically
>> removes the risk of TCP port number collisions, as well as the risk of
>> your temporary instance being hijacked by a malicious user on the same
>> machine.
>
> Right, that's for example /var/folders/ on OSX, and this is defined
> once per test run via $tempdir_short. PGHOST is set to that as well.

Er, mistake here. That's actually once per standard_initdb, except
that all the tests I have included in my patch run it just once to
create a master node. It seems that it would be wiser to set one
socket dir per node then, remove the port assignment stuff, and use
tempdir_short as a key to define a node as well as in the connection
string to this node. I'll update the patch later today...
-- 
Michael