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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> Jonathan Lange wrote:
> 
>> The workaround was modifying the script so that it didn't look in 8.4,
>> thus allowing it to modify 8.3. (Thanks to wgrant & maxb for helping
>> with this)
> 
> This problem is set to come back with every postgres version bump.  The
> newer postgres version sets itself up to run on a different port than
> the one that's already on the system.  The previous version probably
> grabbed the default 5432 port which LP connects to.
> 
> Would it make sense to have a zc.buildout-managed postgres instance?
> It's not hard to set up a local cluster, under the current system user's
> id, with a Unix-domain socket--something I've been wanting for a long
> time but never got around to working on.  The "all your db are belong to
> us" assumptions we have now are really ugly.

Yes please.  This is related to bug #107371 ("Make the test suite able
to be run in parallel on a single machine",
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/107371).

> The hard part I guess would be making all Launchpad components respect
> the lazr-configured connection setup.  But didn't statik already put in
> a lot of work for this?

Cheers,
mwh