Re: test_autovacuum/001_parallel_autovacuum is broken

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 11:32 AM Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The root cause seems to me that it's not guaranteed that we can see
> > the autovacuum logs after checking the statistics (i.e.,
> > pg_stat_user_tables) as we update the statistics and then write the
> > log.
> >
> > One way to fix the test is to replace log_contains() with
> > wait_for_log(). We can also remove wait_for_autovacuum_complete()
> > logic altogether.
>
> +1. I was going to reply with exactly this. Attached is the fix.

Thank you for the patch! I agree with the overall idea. Since we
enable autovacuum log only the test_autovac table, just checking
autovacuum log works as expected.

I think we can simplify the test further by removing the logic around
the av_count variable.

Regards,

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