Re: Regression test failure date.

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Regression test failure date.
Date: 2003-07-28 14:07:59
Message-ID: 200307281408.h6SE80k26651@candle.pha.pa.us
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I am testing this today. I found 2003-03-03 to not generate a failure
in 20 tests, so I am moving forward to April/May.

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Robert Creager wrote:
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> I will stand by the fact that I cannot generate failures from
> 2003-02-15 (200+ runs), and I can from 2003-02-16. Just to make sure I
> didn't screw up the cvs usage, I'll try again tonight if I get the
> chance and re-download re-test these two days.
>
> I can set up a script that will step through weekly dates starting from
> 'now' and see if the 02-16 problem might of been fixed and then
> re-introduced if you like.
>
> 2003-02-16 fails 6/50
> vacuum failed 1 times
> misc failed 3 times
> sanity_check failed 3 times
> inherit failed 1 times
> triggers failed 4 times
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:14:32 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> said something like:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > I have only been running nightly paralell regression runs since June
> > > 27, so it is possible that the paralell regression was broken in
> > > February, fixed in May, then broken some time after that.
> >
> > Any further progress on this?
> >
> > My best theory at the moment is that we have a problem with relcache
> > entry creation failing if it's interrupted by an SI inval message at
> > just the right time. I don't much want to grovel through six months
> > worth of changelog entries looking for candidate mistakes, though.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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