Re: Some other odd buildfarm failures - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Some other odd buildfarm failures
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Msg-id 32318.1419611222@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Some other odd buildfarm failures  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Some other odd buildfarm failures  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I've not proven this rigorously, but it seems obvious in hindsight:
>> what's happening is that when the object_address test drops everything
>> with DROP CASCADE, other processes are sometimes just starting to execute
>> the event trigger when the DROP commits.  When they go to look up the
>> trigger function, they don't find it, leading to "cache lookup failed for
>> function".

> Hm, maybe we can drop the event trigger explicitely first, then wait a
> little bit, then drop the remaining objects with DROP CASCADE?

As I said, that's no fix; it just makes the timing harder to hit.  Another
process could be paused at the critical point for longer than whatever "a
little bit" is.
        regards, tom lane



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