Re: Something flaky in the "relfilenode mapping" infrastructure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Something flaky in the "relfilenode mapping" infrastructure
Date: 2014-06-12 06:44:10
Message-ID: 10515.1402555450@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-06-12 00:38:36 -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
>> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=prairiedog&dt=2014-06-12%2000%3A17%3A07

> Hm. My guess it's that it's just a 'harmless' concurrency issue. The
> test currently run in concurrency with others: I think what happens is
> that the table gets dropped in the other relation after the query has
> acquired the mvcc snapshot (used for the pg_class) test.
> But why is it triggering on such a 'unusual' system and not on others?
> That's what worries me a bit.

prairiedog is pretty damn slow by modern standards. OTOH, I think it
is not the slowest machine in the buildfarm; hamster for instance seems
to be at least a factor of 2 slower. So I'm not sure whether to believe
it's just a timing issue.

regards, tom lane

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