Hi,
On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:25:18AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:55:56AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
>
> > That's the test instability that triggered 818fefd8fd4 and not any report
> > from the field. I think that pre-818fefd8fd4 behavior has been there for a
> > while and that hitting the inconsistency is a pathological case. I'd vote for
> > do nothing unless we get complaints from the field.
>
> I am not sure that there is anything else to be done, but let's just
> revert the change in v16~ for now. As far as I can see, the change is
> straight-forward in v16, slightly funky in v17 as "invalidation_cause"
> is a rename of "conflict", while your patch captures the refactoring
> of v18~ under DetermineSlotInvalidationCause(). I have run a few
> hundred loops of 035_standby_logical_decoding for v16 and v17, in
> case, without seeing problems. Now the original race was also hard to
> see.
The tests are also stabilized on 17 thanks to 17a165d60f73 and on 16 thanks
to 86392e8827d8, so I think that we should be fine on those branches too.
Regards,
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Bertrand Drouvot
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