Re: Windows buildfarm members vs. new async-notify isolation test

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:12 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 10:10 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Hmm ... just looking at the code again, could it be that there's
> >> no well-placed CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS?  Andrew, could you see if
> >> injecting one in what 790026972 added to postgres.c helps?
>
> > I also tried to analyze this failure and it seems this is a good bet,
> > but I am also wondering why we have never seen such a timing issue in
> > other somewhat similar tests.  For ex.,  one with comment (#
> > Cross-backend notification delivery.).  Do they have a better way of
> > ensuring that the notification will be received or is it purely
> > coincidental that they haven't seen such a symptom?
>
> TBH, my bet is that this *won't* fix it, but it seemed like an easy
> thing to test.  For this to fix it, you'd have to suppose that we
> never do a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS during a COMMIT command, which is
> improbable at best.
>


You win your bet. Tried this on frogmouth and it still failed.

cheers

andrew


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