Re: pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug
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Msg-id 19294.1456551587@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Add isolationtester spec for old heapam.c bug

Hmmm ....

http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=spoonbill&dt=2016-02-27%2000%3A00%3A06

This failure looks a lot like the timing-related problems I was chasing
last week with deadlock-hard on the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS critters.
spoonbill isn't CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, but it uses some weird malloc debug
stuff that slows it down by similar orders of magnitude.  You seem to need
to think about how to make this test less timing-dependent.

            regards, tom lane


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