Re: WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:06 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I don't think that moving fsm tests to brin would be a good approach.
> We want to have a separate test for each access method. I think if we
> want to do something to avoid portability issues, maybe we can do what
> Masahiko San has just suggested.

We could also use the same plpgsql loop as in fsm.sql to check the ctid, right?

> OTOH, I think we are just good w.r.t
> this issue with the last patch I sent. I think unless we see some
> problem here, we should put energy into having a reproducible test for
> the fourth problem mentioned in my mail up thread [1]. Do you think
> it makes sense to run make check in loop for multiple times or do you
> have any idea how we can have a reproducible test?

Okay. Earlier I tried running make installcheck with
force_parallel_mode='regress', but didn't get a failure. I may not
have run enough times, though. I'll have to think about how to induce
it.

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