Re: A failure in 031_recovery_conflict.pl on Debian/s390x

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: A failure in 031_recovery_conflict.pl on Debian/s390x
Date: 2023-08-12 21:00:06
Message-ID: 20230812210006.ei7tutzwcr5svyt6@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-08-12 15:50:24 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Thanks. I realised that it's easy enough to test that theory about
> cleanup locks by hacking ConditionalLockBufferForCleanup() to return
> false randomly. Then the test occasionally fails as described. Seems
> like we'll need to fix that test, but it's not evidence of a server
> bug, and my signal handler refactoring patch is in the clear. Thanks
> for testing it!

WRT fixing the test: I think just using VACUUM FREEZE ought to do the job?
After changing all the VACUUMs to VACUUM FREEZEs, 031_recovery_conflict.pl
passes even after I make ConditionalLockBufferForCleanup() fail 100%.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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