Re: [HACKERS] WIP Patch: Pgbench Serialization and deadlock errors

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM Marina Polyakova
<m(dot)polyakova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> On 2018-11-16 22:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2018-Sep-05, Marina Polyakova wrote:
> >
> >> v11-0001-Pgbench-errors-use-the-RandomState-structure-for.patch
> >> - a patch for the RandomState structure (this is used to reset a
> >> client's
> >> random seed during the repeating of transactions after
> >> serialization/deadlock failures).
> >
> > Pushed this one with minor stylistic changes (the most notable of which
> > is the move of initRandomState to where the rest of the random
> > generator
> > infrastructure is, instead of in a totally random place). Thanks,
>
> Thank you very much! I'm going to send a new patch set until the end of
> this week (I'm sorry I was very busy in the release of Postgres Pro
> 11...).

Is anyone interested in rebasing this, and summarising what needs to
be done to get it in? It's arguably a bug or at least quite
unfortunate that pgbench doesn't work with SERIALIZABLE, and I heard
that a couple of forks already ship Marina's patch set.