Re: random isolation test failures
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-27T04:11:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: > I just tweaked isolationtester so that it collects the error messages > and displays them all together at the end of the test. After seeing it > run, I didn't like it -- I think I prefer something more local, so that > in the only case where we call try_complete_step twice in the loop, we > report any errors in either. AFAICS this would make both expected cases > behave identically in test output. Hmm, is that really an appropriate fix? I'm worried that it might mask event-ordering differences that actually are significant. regards, tom lane