Re: REINDEX INDEX results in a crash for an index of pg_class since 9.6

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX INDEX results in a crash for an index of pg_class since 9.6
Date: 2019-04-30 22:24:40
Message-ID: 28313.1556663080@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> I'm not wild to go for a separate TAP test. A separate initdb cycle for
> a a tests that takes about 30ms seems a bit over the top.

Fair enough.

> So I'm
> inclined to either try running it in a serial step on the buildfarm
> (survived a few dozen cycles with -DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE
> -DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, and a few with -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS), or
> just remove them alltogether. Or remove it alltogether until we fix
> this. Since you indicated a preference agains the former, I'll remove
> it in a bit until I hear otherwise.

> I'll add it to my todo list to try to fix the concurrency issues for 13.

If you're really expecting to have a go at that during the v13 cycle,
I think we could live without these test cases till then.

regards, tom lane

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