I wrote:
> But ... AFAICS the only signal that could plausibly be arriving at the
> stats collector is SIGALRM from its own use of setitimer() to schedule
> stats file writes. So it seems that this failure occurs when the alarm
> fires between the select() and recv() calls; which is possible but i
The latest buildfarm report from trout,
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=trout&dt=2006-07-16%2014:36:19
shows a failure mode that we've seen recently on snake, but not for a
long time on any non-Windows machines: the stats test fails with
symptoms suggesting that the stats counters
