Re: xid_wraparound tests intermittent failure.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 3:29 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 2024-07-29 Mo 5:25 PM, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
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> I've attached the patch. Could you please test if the patch fixes the
> instability you observed?
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> Since we turn off autovacuum on all three tests and we wait for
> autovacuum to complete processing databases, these tests potentially
> have a similar (but lower) risk. So I modified these tests to turn it
> on so we can ensure the autovacuum runs periodically.
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> I assume you actually meant to remove the "autovacuum = off" in 003_wraparound.pl. With that change in your patch I retried my test, but on iteration 100 out of 100 it failed on test 002_limits.pl.
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> I think we need to remove the "autovacuum = off' also in 002_limits.pl
> as it waits for autovacuum to process both template0 and template1
> databases. Just to be clear, the failure happened even without
> "autovacuum = off"?
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> The attached patch, a slight modification of yours, removes "autovacuum
> = off" for all three tests, and given that a set of 200 runs was clean
> for me.
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> Oh I missed that I left "autovacuum = off' for some reason in 002
> test. Thank you for attaching the patch, it looks good to me.
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> Thanks, pushed.

Thanks!

Regards,

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