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

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 13:51, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
> > <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
> >
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> 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.

The analysis shared by Kuroda-san matches my understanding. I'd like
to avoid removing this test case just because it doesn't pass with
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.

One solution is to have two expected-output files to cover both cases.
We do a similar thing for the plpgsql_cache.sql test case. What do you
think?

Regards,

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