Re: Should we disable Solaris using Unix Domain Sockets in the regression test?

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-23T05:48:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:

> Did anyone ever figure out why Solaris boxes had those random failures
> during the regression tests?

It should be better now that listen() is being called with a larger
number.  The basic problem is that Solaris actually honors the
listen() backlog argument, and if more than that many Unix socket
clients attempt to connect simultaneously, some are rejected
immediately.

Ian