Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:13 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> IIRC the problem in matter isn't skipped pages, but that the horizon simply isn't new enough to mark pages as all visible.

Sometimes OldestXmin can go backwards in VACUUM operations that are
run in close succession against the same table, due to activity from
other databases in the same cluster (perhaps other factors are
involved at times).

That's why the following assertion that I recently added to
vacuumlazy.c will fail pretty quickly without the
"vacrel->NewRelfrozenXid == OldestXmin" part of its test:

Assert(vacrel->NewRelfrozenXid == OldestXmin ||
TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(aggressive ? FreezeLimit :
vacrel->relfrozenxid,
vacrel->NewRelfrozenXid));

If you remove "vacrel->NewRelfrozenXid == OldestXmin", and run the
regression tests, the remaining assertion will fail quite easily.
Though perhaps not with a serial "make check".

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Peter Geoghegan