Re: Testing pg_terminate_backend()

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Testing pg_terminate_backend()
Date: 2008-04-18 21:34:03
Message-ID: 200804182134.m3ILY3b15692@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Attached is my test script. I ran it for 14 hours (asserts on),
> > running 450 regression tests, with up to seven backends killed per
> > regression test.
>
> Hmm, there are something on the order of 10000 SQL commands in our
> regression tests, so even assuming perfect randomness you've exercised
> SIGTERM on maybe 10% of them --- and of course there's multiple places
> in a complex DDL command where SIGTERM might conceivably be a problem.
>
> Who was volunteering to run this 24x7 for awhile?

Yes, that is what it needs.

> > SLEEP=`expr $RANDOM \* $REGRESSION_DURATION / 32767`
>
> Uh, where's the randomness coming from?

In bash $RANDOM returns a random number from 0-32k every time;
#!/bin/bash is specified in the top line.

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