Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, 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: 2022-04-15 05:21:25
Message-ID: 20220415052125.GD862547@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:12:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-04-14 19:45:15 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > I suspect the failure is somehow impossible in "check". Yesterday, I cranked
> > up the number of locales, so there are now a lot more installcheck. Before
> > that, each farm run had one "check" and two "installcheck". Those days saw
> > ten installcheck failures, zero check failures.
>
> I notice that the buildfarm appears to run initdb with syncing enabled
> ("syncing data to disk ... ok" in the initdb steps). Whereas pg_regress
> uses --no-sync.

Yep.

> I wonder if that's what makes the difference? Now that you reproduced
> it, does it still reproduce with --no-sync added?

It does; the last version of my script used "initdb -N ...".

> Also worth noting that pg_regress doesn't go through pg_ctl...

Hmmm.

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