Re: src/test/subscription/t/005_encoding.pl is broken

Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Now, I just had a look at the logs for a failure and a success, and
> one difference can be seen in the subscriber's logs as follows:
> -LOG: logical replication table synchronization worker for
> subscription "mysub", table "test1" has started
> -LOG: logical replication table synchronization worker for
> subscription "mysub", table "test1" has finished
> +WARNING: out of background worker slots
> +HINT: You might need to increase max_worker_processes.
> The "+" portion is for a failure, and I think that this causes the
> subscription to not consume the changes from the publisher which
> explains the failure in the test as the logical worker applying the
> changes on the subscriber-side is not here.

That would indicate that something isn't ever retrying the worker
start; but if that's the case, how is it that we get through the
other subscription tests with my random-failure patch in place?

regards, tom lane