Re: recovery testing for beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: recovery testing for beta
Date
Msg-id 20140529191743.GN7857@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to recovery testing for beta  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: recovery testing for beta  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Jeff Janes wrote:

> One thing is that I want to find a way to drive multixact in fast forward,
> so that the freezing cycle gets a good workout. Currently I can't consume
> enough of them to make them wrap around within the time frame of a test.

IIRC I lobotomized it up by removing the XLogInsert() call.  That allows
you to generate large amounts of multixacts quickly.  In my laptop this
was able to do four or five wraparound cycles in two-three hours or so,
using the "burn multixact" utility here:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20131231035913.GU22570@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org

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