Hello Tom,
29.09.2026 21:31, Tom Lane wrote:
Bingshuai Li <lucian1412@outlook.com> writes:
What's the reason to consider this as a worse problem in 19 than in
previous releases?
There isn't one -- I asked because 19 GA was approaching and the bug
was reported against 19. Fixing it in all stable branches for the
November minors sounds right.
While it's not any worse for v19 than older branches, it would be sad
if this isn't fixed for v19 GA, since we have that scheduled ahead of
the November minors.
Also, of late the test_decoding/sql/ddl.sql test has been failing
often enough in the buildfarm to be quite annoying. So I'd like to
see this fixed sooner not later. (It's not very clear to me why
we are suddenly able to see this old bug in the regression tests.
The part of ddl.sql that's crashing hasn't changed in years, but
BF member "prion" has failed multiple times in the past two weeks.
Do we have a theory about that that's better than hand-wavy
"some change in timing"?)
Besides prion, skink managed to trigger that assert too: [1]. It didn't run
tests from 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-25 [2], and never failed this test before,
so I guess the change which affected the test was on Sep 15: a4b26b8f7
(the very first prion's failure includes this commit [3]). I can reproduce
this failure under Valgrind locally, but not reliably enough to bisect it
quickly.
[1]
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=skink&dt=2026-09-28%2003%3A25%3A19 [2]
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=skink&br=master [3]
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=prion&dt=2026-09-15%2021%3A39%3A57 Best regards,
Alexander
