Re: pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug
Date: 2016-02-27 05:39:47
Message-ID: 19294.1456551587@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug

Hmmm ....

http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=spoonbill&dt=2016-02-27%2000%3A00%3A06

This failure looks a lot like the timing-related problems I was chasing
last week with deadlock-hard on the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS critters.
spoonbill isn't CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, but it uses some weird malloc debug
stuff that slows it down by similar orders of magnitude. You seem to need
to think about how to make this test less timing-dependent.

regards, tom lane

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