Re: POC: Better infrastructure for automated testing of concurrency issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: POC: Better infrastructure for automated testing of concurrency issues
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Msg-id 20201204182951.GA2183@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to POC: Better infrastructure for automated testing of concurrency issues  (Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: POC: Better infrastructure for automated testing of concurrency issues
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On 2020-Nov-25, Alexander Korotkov wrote:

> In the view of above, I'd like to propose a POC patch, which implements new
> builtin infrastructure for reproduction of concurrency issues in automated
> test suites.  The general idea is so-called "stop events", which are
> special places in the code, where the execution could be stopped on some
> condition.  Stop event also exposes a set of parameters, encapsulated into
> jsonb value.  The condition over stop event parameters is defined using
> jsonpath language.

+1 for the idea.  I agree we have a need for something on this area;
there are *many* scenarios currently untested because of the lack of
what you call "stop points".  I don't know if jsonpath is the best way
to implement it, but at least it is readily available and it seems a
decent way to go at it.




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