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 87sg4ar9ar.fsf@ars-thinkpad
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In response to Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
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Re: Flaky vacuum truncate test in reloptions.sql
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Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> writes:

>> I don't think this matters much, as it tests the contrary and the
>> probability of
>> successful test passing (in case of theoretical bug making vacuum to
>> truncate
>> non-empty relation) becomes stunningly small. But adding it wouldn't hurt
>> either.
>
> I was concerned a bit that without FREEZE in the first VACUUM we could
> not test it properly because the table could not be truncated because
> either vacuum_truncate is off

FREEZE won't help us there.

> or the page is skipped.

You mean at the same time there is a potential bug in vacuum which would
force the truncation of non-empy relation if the page wasn't locked?
That would mean the chance of test getting passed even single time is
close to 0, as currently the chance of its failure is close to 1.


-- cheers, arseny



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