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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2019-08-04 13:07:12 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2019-08-04 13:07:12 -0400 |
commit | 803466b6ffaa2e5b94d8ce4d7fffa8185f2a0184 (patch) | |
tree | bcff820cbc633771ee7c3795a154f027917971dc /contrib/jsonb_plperl/jsonb_plperl.c | |
parent | 489247b0e615592111226297a0564e11616361a5 (diff) | |
download | postgresql-803466b6ffaa2e5b94d8ce4d7fffa8185f2a0184.tar.gz |
Avoid picking already-bound TCP ports in kerberos and ldap test suites.
src/test/kerberos and src/test/ldap need to run a private authentication
server of the relevant type, for which they need a free TCP port.
They were just picking a random port number in 48K-64K, which works
except when something's already using the particular port. Notably,
the probability of failure rises dramatically if one simply runs those
tests in a tight loop, because each test cycle leaves behind a bunch of
high ports that are transiently in TIME_WAIT state.
To fix, split out the code that PostgresNode.pm already had for
identifying a free TCP port number, so that it can be invoked to choose
a port for the KDC or LDAP server. This isn't 100% bulletproof, since
conceivably something else on the machine could grab the port between
the time we check and the time we actually start the server. But that's
a pretty short window, so in practice this should be good enough.
Back-patch to v11 where these test suites were added.
Patch by me, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3397.1564872168@sss.pgh.pa.us
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