Re: 011_crash_recovery.pl intermittently fails

Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: thomas.munro@gmail.com, pg@bowt.ie, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com, robertmhaas@gmail.com
Date: 2021-03-05T09:08:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
At Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:51:17 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in 
> The difference comes from the difference of shared_buffers. In the
> "allows_streaming" case, PostgresNode::init() *reduces* the number
> down to '1MB'(128 blocks) which leads to only 8 XLOGbuffers, which
> will very soon be wrap-arounded, which leads to XLogWrite.
> 
> When allows_streaming=0 case, the default size of shared_buffers is
> 128MB (16384 blocks).  WAL buffer (512) doesn't get wrap-arounded
> during the test and no WAL buffer is written out in that case.

So I think we need to remove the shared_buffers setting for the
allows_streamig case in PostgresNode.pm

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center



Commits

  1. Remove recovery test 011_crash_recovery.pl

  2. Add a txid_status function.