Re: Tests randomly failed

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> What I see is a lot of
> 
> ! psql: Backend startup failed
> 
> which suggests a fork() failure.  Look in the postmaster logfile to see
> the exact kernel error code --- but probably you are out of swap space
> or up against the kernel's limit on number of processes for one userid.
Strange, but this solution *also* works: I raise in /etc/system from 64 to
set maxuprc=256
revert pg_regress.sh in original state (with unix sockets for solaris),
and now all tests are passed.

Regards,
ASK