Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse
Date: 2022-04-14 00:35:02
Message-ID: 20220414003502.fmcm3wcgjw5zk5ax@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-04-13 16:45:44 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > So what seems to be happening on wrasse is that a background
> > autovacuum (or really autoanalyze?) is preventing pages from
> > being marked all-visible not only during test_setup.sql but
> > also create_index.sql; but it's gone by the time sanity_check.sql
> > runs.
>
> I agree that it would need to be an autoanalyze (due to the
> PROC_IN_VACUUM optimization).

That's not a realiable protection - the snapshot is established normally
at first, only after a while we set PROC_IN_VACUUM...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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