Re: [BUG] Error in BRIN summarization

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Error in BRIN summarization
Date: 2020-08-17 20:21:01
Message-ID: 20200817202101.GA3895@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Aug-17, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Hmm, the only explanation I can see for this is that autovacuum managed
> to summarize the range before the test script did it. So the solution
> would simply be to disable autovacuum for the table across the whole
> script.
>
> I'm running the scripts and dependencies to verify that fix, but under
> CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS that takes quite a bit.

I ran a subset of tests a few times, but was unable to reproduce the
problem. I'll just push this to all branches and hope for the best.

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