Re: More replication race conditions

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 02:32:49AM +0000, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:09:00PM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> > On 24/08/17 19:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > sungazer just failed with
> > >
> > > pg_recvlogical exited with code '256', stdout '' and stderr 'pg_recvlogical: could not send replication command "START_REPLICATION SLOT "test_slot" LOGICAL 0/0 ("include-xids" '0', "skip-empty-xacts" '1')": ERROR: replication slot "test_slot" is active for PID 8913148
> > > pg_recvlogical: disconnected
> > > ' at /home/nm/farm/gcc64/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/../../../src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm line 1657.
> > >
> > > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=sungazer&dt=2017-08-24%2015%3A16%3A10
> > >
> > > Looks like we're still not there on preventing replication startup
> > > race conditions.
> >
> > Hmm, that looks like "by design" behavior. Slot acquiring will throw
> > error if the slot is already used by somebody else (slots use their own
> > locking mechanism that does not wait). In this case it seems the
> > walsender which was using slot for previous previous step didn't finish
> > releasing the slot by the time we start new command. We can work around
> > this by changing the test to wait perhaps.
>
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