Re: Fix uninitialized xl_running_xacts padding

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Alexander Kuzmenkov <akuzmenkov(at)tigerdata(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin(dot)bonnefoy(at)datadoghq(dot)com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix uninitialized xl_running_xacts padding
Date: 2026-03-18 12:18:45
Message-ID: bcc81add-15d6-44f8-88a8-ba9b5b68e0c9@iki.fi
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On 18/03/2026 12:42, Alexander Kuzmenkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 7:59 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz
> <mailto:michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>> wrote:
>
> Hmm.  If I take this SQL sequence independently or with an
> installcheck, the one-page VACUUM path is taken during the final
> INSERT, but that's not the case of a `make check`.  Could this be made
> more stable?  I have not spent a lot of time on it, so I may be
> missing something obvious, of course.
>
>
> I think this might be caused by "make check" running many tests in
> parallel, so the deleting transaction is visible to some snapshots, and
> the cleanup is not done. Not sure what's the best way to improve this.

I think if you use "BEGIN; INSERT ...; ROLLBACK;" to generate the dead
tuples instead of DELETE, it will not be sensitive to concurrent
snapshots like that.

- Heikki

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