Re: A failure in prepared_xacts test

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A failure in prepared_xacts test
Date: 2024-05-03 12:27:40
Message-ID: 07982fd7-e9a8-4aff-aa02-efcb0dd6402f@eisentraut.org
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On 29.04.24 07:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Up to now, we've only worried about whether tests running in parallel
> within a single test suite can interact. It's quite scary to think
> that the meson setup has expanded the possibility of interactions
> to our entire source tree. Maybe that was a bad idea and we should
> fix the meson infrastructure to not do that. I fear that otherwise,
> we'll get bit regularly by very-low-probability bugs of this kind.

I don't think there is anything fundamentally different in the
parallelism setups of the make-based and the meson-based tests. There
are just different implementation details that might affect the likely
orderings and groupings.

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