Re: strange buildfarm failure on lionfish

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange buildfarm failure on lionfish
Date: 2007-07-25 21:51:28
Message-ID: 5103.1185400288@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 22:20 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> Also, it might let us set up a standby database in the regression
>> suite which would give us some xlog coverage as well which is a
>> critical portion of the system the regression suite doesn't test at
>> all.

> I like that general thought and will help where I can.

One pretty crude test I use a lot is to "kill -9" the bgwriter or some
other subprocess immediately after the regression tests finish.
Assuming you have checkpoints far enough apart, this forces a replay
from WAL of the entire regression sequence. Doesn't exercise archiving
though.

regards, tom lane

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