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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> 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).

I'm in favor of this as well.  It is also definitely potential BE material.

There are many tasks and goals to be balanced, as usual, though.  I'll try to have more to say about this particular one tomorrow.

Gary