Re: [HACKERS] psql & regress tests

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql & regress tests
Date: 1999-11-19 04:48:00
Message-ID: 1014.942986880@sss.pgh.pa.us
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wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> The ugly detail, I'm currently running into, is that there
> already seems to be a concurrency problem I discovered with
> my testing. Occationally I get this into the postmaster log
> for parallel executing tests:

> ERROR: Bad boolean external representation 'XXX'
> FATAL 1: SearchSysCache: recursive use of cache 10
> FATAL 2: elog: error in postmaster or backend startup, giving up!
> pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> Server process (pid 9791) exited with status 512 at Fri Nov 19 03:17:09 1999
> Terminating any active server processes...

> It happens during the first parallel group of 11 tests. Not
> allways, so it's timing critical. Outch.

In other words, you've already exposed a bug! Right on!

Commit the thing, so more eyes can look for the problem. I expect
you have found a pre-existing backend bug, not a problem in your
new regress test scaffold.

regards, tom lane

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