Re: conchuela timeouts since 2021-10-09 system upgrade

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2021-10-29T03:19:56Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> Did that work?  Commit 7f580aa should make this unnecessary for v12+
> contrib/amcheck tests, but older branches still need a fix, and 017_shm.pl
> needs a fix in all branches.  A backup plan is just to skip affected tests on
> dragonfly 6+.  Since the breakage has been limited to so few tests, I'm
> optimistic that a better workaround will present itself.

It indeed is looking like 7f580aa made the problem go away on conchuela,
but do we understand why?  The only theory I can think of is "kernel bug",
but while that's plausible for prairiedog it seems hard to credit for a
late-model BSD kernel.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

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  1. Improve contrib/amcheck's tests for CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.

  2. Fix minor memory leaks in pg_dump.

  3. Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.

  4. Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for the newest prepared transactions.

  5. Add -w back to the flags for pg_ctl (re)start in PostgresNode

  6. Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for simultaneous prepared transactions.