pgsql: Fix rare test failure in nbtree_half_dead_pages

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix rare test failure in nbtree_half_dead_pages
Date: 2026-01-16 12:40:26
Message-ID: E1vgj7q-000nhy-0E@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix rare test failure in nbtree_half_dead_pages

If auto-analyze kicks in at just the right moment, it can hold a
snapshot and prevent the VACUUM command in the test from removing the
deleted tuples. The test needs the tuples to be removed, otherwise no
half-dead page is generated. To fix, introduce a helper procedure to
wait for the removable cutoff to advance, like the one used in the
syscache-update-pruned test for similar purposes.

Thanks to Alexander Lakhin for reproducing and analyzing the test
failure, and Tom Lane for the report.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/307198.1767408023@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1c64d2fcbe7b27758772c7bc335f29263771ba1d

Modified Files
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.../nbtree/expected/nbtree_half_dead_pages.out | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../modules/nbtree/sql/nbtree_half_dead_pages.sql | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+)

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