Re: subscriptionCheck failures on nightjar

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: subscriptionCheck failures on nightjar
Date: 2019-09-19 04:23:05
Message-ID: 20190919042305.GA21144@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:58:08PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I kinda suspect it might be just a coincidence that it fails during that
> particular test. What likely plays a role here is a checkpoint timing
> (AFAICS that's the thing removing the file). On most systems the tests
> complete before any checkpoint is triggered, hence no issue.
>
> Maybe aggressively triggering checkpoints on the running cluter from
> another session would do the trick ...

Now that I recall, another thing I forgot to mention on this thread is
that I patched guc.c to reduce the minimum of checkpoint_timeout to
1s.
--
Michael

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