Re: a raft of parallelism-related bug fixes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: a raft of parallelism-related bug fixes
Date: 2016-02-08 20:14:54
Message-ID: 20160208201454.GA323965@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:

> Oh: another thing that I would like to do is commit the isolation
> tests I wrote for the deadlock detector a while back, which nobody has
> reviewed either, though Tom and Alvaro seemed reasonably positive
> about the concept. Right now, the deadlock.c part of this patch isn't
> tested at all by any of our regression test suites, because NOTHING in
> deadlock.c is tested by any of our regression test suites. You can
> blow it up with dynamite and the regression tests are perfectly happy,
> and that's pretty scary.

FWIW a couple of months back I thought you had already pushed that one
and was surprised to find that you hadn't. +1 from me on pushing it.
(I don't mean specifically the deadlock tests, but rather the
isolationtester changes that allowed you to have multiple blocked
backends.)

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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