Re: recovery test failures on hoverfly

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: recovery test failures on hoverfly
Date: 2021-06-11 14:37:21
Message-ID: 1880199.1623422241@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 05:38:34PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> It seems the error happens in both the tests when after issuing a
>> KILL, we are trying to reconnect. Can we do anything for this?

> This is the same problem as c757a3da and 6d41dd0, where we write a
> query to a pipe but the kill, causing a failure, makes the test fail
> with a SIGPIPE in IPC::Run as a query is sent down to a pipe.

Indeed.

> I think that using SELECT 1 to test if the server has been restarted
> is a bit crazy. I would suggest to use instead a loop based on
> pg_isready.

The precedent of the previous fixes would seem to suggest seeing if
we can replace 'SELECT 1' with "undef". Not sure if that'll work
without annoying changes to poll_query_until, though.

regards, tom lane

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