Re: 12.1 not useable: clientlib fails after a dozen queries (GSSAPI ?)

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:59:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
! [ redirecting to -hackers ]

! I modified the kerberos test so that it tries a query with a less
! negligible amount of data, and what I find is:
!
! * passes on Fedora 30, with either default or 1500 mtu
! * passes on FreeBSD 12.0 with default mtu
! * FAILS on FreeBSD 12.0 with mtu = 1500

So, it is not related to only VIMAGE @ R11.3, and -more important to
me- it is not only happening in my kitchen. Thank You very much :)

! OTOH, I also find that there's some hysteresis in the behavior:
! once it's failed, reverting the mtu to the default setting doesn't
! necessarily make subsequent runs pass. It's really hard to explain
! that behavior if it's our bug.

That's affirmative. Made me go astray a few times when trying to
isolate it.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 02:25:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
! Ah, I have it: whoever wrote pg_GSS_read() failed to pay attention
! to the fact that setting errno is a critical part of its API.
! Sometimes it returns -1 while leaving errno in a state that causes

Wow, that's fast. My probability-guess this morning was either some
hard-coded 8192-byte buffer, or something taking an [EWOULDBLOCK] for
OK. Then I decided to not look into the code, as You will be much
faster anyway, and there are other pieces of software where I do
not have such a competent peer to talk to...

Anyway, thanks a lot!
PMc