Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> This seems to have made the following race condition easier to hit:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200206074552.GB3326097%40rfd.leadboat.com
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/21519.1585272409%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Yeah, I just came to the same guess in the other thread.
> While I don't think that indicates anything wrong with the fix for $SUBJECT,
> creating more buildfarm noise is itself bad. I am inclined to revert the fix
> after a week. Not immediately, in case it uncovers lower-probability bugs.
> I'd then re-commit it after one of those threads fixes the other bug. Would
> anyone like to argue for a revert earlier, later, or not at all?
I don't think you should revert. Those failures are (just) often enough
to be annoying but I do not think that a proper fix is very far away.
regards, tom lane
