Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Arseny Sher
Subject Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql
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Msg-id 78aad736-c653-92fd-45ac-4482729459c6@postgrespro.ru
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In response to Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql
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On 3/30/21 10:12 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:

 > Yep, this is the same problem as the one discussed for c2dc1a7, where
 > a concurrent checkpoint may cause a page to be skipped, breaking the
 > test.

Indeed, Alexander Lakhin pointed me to that commit after I wrote the 
message.

 > Why not just using DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING instead here?

I think this is not enough. DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING disables vm consulting 
(sets
aggressive=true in the routine); however, if the page is locked and
lazy_check_needs_freeze says there is nothing to freeze on it, we again 
don't
look at its contents closely.


-- cheers, arseny



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