Re: BF animal dikkop reported a failure in 035_standby_logical_decoding

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Yu Shi (Fujitsu)" <shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
Subject: Re: BF animal dikkop reported a failure in 035_standby_logical_decoding
Date: 2023-05-30 15:24:26
Message-ID: 20230530152426.ensapay7pozh7ozn@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-05-29 14:31:24 +0200, Drouvot, Bertrand wrote:
> On 5/29/23 1:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > but I wouldn't be surprised if something in the logical replication
> > mechanism itself could be running a transaction at the wrong instant.
> >
> > Some of the other recovery tests set
> > autovacuum = off
> > to try to control such problems, but I'm not sure how much of
> > a solution that really is.
>
> One option I can think of is to:
>
> 1) set autovacuum = off (as it looks like the usual suspect).
> 2) trigger the vacuum in verbose mode (as suggested by Shi-san) and
> depending of its output run the "invalidation" test or: re-launch the vacuum, re-check the output
> and so on.. (n times max). If n is reached, then skip this test.

I think the best fix would be to wait for a new snapshot that has a newer
horizon, before doing the vacuum full.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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