Re: Vacuum ERRORs out considering freezing dead tuples from before OldestXmin

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Vacuum ERRORs out considering freezing dead tuples from before OldestXmin
Date: 2024-07-22 17:37:17
Message-ID: 20240722173717.jq67ij75bleau6pb@awork3.anarazel.de
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On 2024-07-22 13:16:49 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:48 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I'm a little suspicious
> > of using it for tests that merely take an unreasonable amount of
> > time --- to me, that indicates laziness on the part of the test
> > author.
>
> Laziness would have been not bothering to develop a TAP test for this
> at all. Going to the trouble of creating one and not being able to
> make it as fast or as stable as everybody would like is just being
> human.

Yea, I think calling weeks of effort by Melanie lazy is, uhm, not kind.

It's not like somebody else had a great suggestion for how to do this in a
better way either.

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