Re: BUG #14150: Attempted to delete invisible tuple

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Oskari Saarenmaa <os(at)aiven(dot)io>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Tripp <peter(at)chartio(dot)com>, Virendra Negi <virendra(at)idyllic-software(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #14150: Attempted to delete invisible tuple
Date: 2016-08-18 20:57:42
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTo9RajJ_kFpBSW71Uy06npkfuXrJoXqwassYhgbqfu=g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> You could possibly try to force a single ordering by inserting a sleep
>> into some step of the test --- we have some other isolation tests that
>> do it that way. But it's hard to predict how much sleep is enough.
>
> I don't think it's applicable here - s2/3 are woken up by the same lock
> release. The order in which the OS lets them run primarily determines
> the result visibility. A sleep wouldn't hide the difference in output
> order afaics. I guess we could hide the combined steps (insert & sleep)
> in a function, but ...

There is an argument to be made for fixing isolationtester to
accommodate this kind of thing.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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