Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse
Date: 2022-04-14 16:48:30
Message-ID: 20220414164830.63rk5zqsvtqqk7qz@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-04-14 12:26:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > Thanks! Can you repro the problem manually on wrasse, perhaps even
> > outside the buildfarm script?

Ah, cool.

> I'm working on that right now, actually...
>
> > I wonder if we should make VACUUM log the VERBOSE output at DEBUG1
> > unconditionally. This is like the third bug where we needed that
> > information, and it's practically impossible to include in regression
> > output. Then we'd know what the xid horizon is, whether pages were
> > skipped, etc.
>
> Right at the moment it seems like we also need visibility into what
> CREATE INDEX is doing.

> I'm not sure I'd buy into permanent changes here (at least not ones made
> in haste), but temporarily adding more logging seems perfectly reasonable.

I think it might be worth leaving in, but let's debate that separately?
I'm thinking of something like the attached.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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