Re: Why the buildfarm is all pink

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> This doesn't make me happy. Aside from the sheer waste of cycles
> involved in re-analyzing the entire regression database, this
> test runs in parallel with half a dozen others, and it could cause
> plan instability in those. Of course, if it does, then most likely
> those tests have a hazard from autovacuum anyway. But this still
> looks to me like a poor bit of test design.

Agreed.

> Anyway, bottom line is that I think we need to institute, and
> back-patch, some consistent scheme for when to analyze the standard
> tables during the regression tests, so that we don't have hazards
> like this for tests that want to check what plan gets selected.
>
> Comments?

Everything you're saying sounds reasonable from here.

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