Re: To what extent should tests rely on VACUUM ANALYZE?

Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-29T14:00:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Hello Tom,

29.03.2024 16:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think that deviation can be explained by the fact that cost_index() takes
>> baserel->allvisfrac (derived from pg_class.relallvisible) into account for
>> the index-only-scan case, and I see the following difference when a test
>> run fails:
>>           relname        | relpages | reltuples | relallvisible | indisvalid | autovacuum_count | autoanalyze_count
>>    ----------------------+----------+-----------+---------------+------------+------------------+-------------------
>> - tenk1                |      345 |     10000 |           345 |            |                0 |                 0
>> + tenk1                |      345 |     10000 |           305 |            |                0 |                 0
> Ouch.  So what's triggering that?  The intention of test_setup
> surely is to provide a uniform starting point.

Thanks for your attention to the issue!
Please try the attached...

Best regards,
Alexander

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