Re: buildfarm logging versus embedded nulls

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Most of the "pgstat wait timeout" gripes are coming from the backend
>> running the "vacuum" regression test, but there are two that came from
>> process dcc0, which is shown by other log entries to be the autovacuum
>> launcher. So now I'm wondering if there could be some issue that occurs
>> when the autovac launcher and a backend both want stats concurrently.

> Seems like this issue would exist whenever two backends want stats
> concurrently, no? Is this well-tested?

Well, you tell me how much it's been tested ;-). But the autovac
launcher could possibly interact differently than another backend,
since it has a different value for maximum stats file age.

Anyway it's only a guess. It could well be that that machine was simply
so heavily loaded that the stats collector couldn't respond fast enough.
I'm just wondering whether there's an unrecognized bug lurking here.

regards, tom lane