Re: Logical replication 'invalid memory alloc request size 1585837200' after upgrading to 17.5

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Cc: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-06-23T02:52:45Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 13:51, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
> <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > To fix the test failure, I suggest to just remove the case. Insert-after-commit
> > case has already been tested by above part of this file, so no need to do others.
>
> Alternatively I was thinking of a fix if it is possible to run this
> test conditionally when CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS is not defined, I was not
> sure if it is easy to do that and worth the effort for the PG13
> branch. I'm ok with the proposed change.
>

I prefer to change the test because, if the above analysis is correct,
it indicates that the test has a cache flush hazard. It would be
better to make the test robust instead of working around it.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



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  1. Fix cache-dependent test failures in logical decoding.

  2. Fix re-distributing previously distributed invalidation messages during logical decoding.

  3. Fix data loss in logical replication.