Re: Increasing timeout of poll_query_until for TAP tests

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 07:55:37PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 09:52:27PM -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> > Since now() is transaction_timestamp(), $recovery_time precedes or equals
> > $lsn3, and this didn't close the race.  Using clock_timestamp() here would
> > work, as does using separate transactions like recovery-test-fixes.patch did.
> > I'll shortly push a fix for this and a similar ordering problem in the
> > standby_5 test, which first appeared subsequent to this thread.
> 
> As recovery_target_inclusive is true by default, my conclusion on the
> matter, which was something that my tests on hamster, the now-dead
> buildfarm animal seemed to confirm, is that just getting a timestamp at
> least the value of the LSN from the same transaction was enough to fix
> all the failures. And hamster was really slow. I can follow why
> logically your patch makes sense, so I agree that this is sane. Have you
> spotted failures from the buildfarm?

No, but I checked only the last 90 days.  Earlier master (e.g. git checkout
6078770^) with the following patch reproduces the failures on every run:

--- a/src/test/recovery/t/003_recovery_targets.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/003_recovery_targets.pl
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ my ($lsn2, $recovery_txid) = split /\|/, $ret;
 $node_master->safe_psql('postgres',
 	"INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (generate_series(2001,3000))");
 $ret =
-  $node_master->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_current_wal_lsn(), now();");
-my ($lsn3, $recovery_time) = split /\|/, $ret;
+  $node_master->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_sleep(80), pg_current_wal_lsn(), now();");
+my ($delay_for_autovacuum, $lsn3, $recovery_time) = split /\|/, $ret;
 
 # Even more data, this time with a recovery target name
 $node_master->safe_psql('postgres',
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ $node_master->safe_psql('postgres',
 	"INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (generate_series(4001,5000))");
 my $recovery_lsn =
   $node_master->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_current_wal_lsn()");
+$node_master->safe_psql('postgres', 'VACUUM');  # write some WAL
 my $lsn5 =
   $node_master->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_current_wal_lsn();");