Re: Odd, intermittent failure in contrib/pageinspect

On 2021-Jan-18, Tom Lane wrote:

> Right.  If that's the explanation, then adding DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING
> to the test's VACUUM options should fix it.  However, to believe that
> theory you have to have some reason to think that some other process
> might have the page pinned.  What would that be?  test1 only has one
> small tuple in it, so it doesn't seem credible that autovacuum or
> autoanalyze would have fired on it.

I guess the machine would have to be pretty constrained.  (It takes
almost seven minutes to go through the pg_upgrade test, so it does seems
small.)

> [ thinks for a bit... ]  Does the checkpointer pin pages it's writing
> out?  I guess it'd have to ...

It does, per SyncOneBuffer(), called from BufferSync(), called from
CheckPointBuffers().

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