Re: A failure in prepared_xacts test

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> > I noticed that some TAP tests from recovery and subscription would
> > select the count from pg_prepared_xacts.  I wonder if these tests would
> > be affected if there are any prepared transactions on the backend.
>
> TAP tests shouldn't be at risk, because there is no "make
> installcheck" equivalent for them.  Each TAP test creates its own
> database instance (or maybe several), so that instance won't have
> anything else going on.


Thank you for the explanation.  I wasn't aware of this before.

Thanks
Richard