Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, 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 22:28:34
Message-ID: CAH2-WzngTjUk_65ESmrMf40WTqasrmWG0gpwnvcN+mXsoXT7qQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:23 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> If we captured equivalent output from the manual VACUUM in test_setup,
> maybe something could be learned. However, it seems virtually certain
> to me that the problematic xmin is in some background process
> (eg autovac launcher) and thus wouldn't show up in the postmaster log,
> log_line_prefix or no.

A bunch of autovacuums that ran between "2022-04-14 22:49:16.274" and
"2022-04-14 22:49:19.088" all have the same "removable cutoff".

The logs from this time show a period of around three seconds
(likely more) where something held back OldestXmin generally.
That does seem a bit fishy to me, even though it happened about a
minute after the failure itself took place.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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