Isolation tests still falling over routinely

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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Isolation tests still falling over routinely
Date: 2011-09-21 00:30:42
Message-ID: 9179.1316565042@sss.pgh.pa.us
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The buildfarm is still showing isolation test failures more days than
not, eg
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pika&dt=2011-09-17%2012%3A43%3A11
and I've personally seen such failures when testing with
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. Could we please fix those tests to not have such
fragile timing assumptions?

regards, tom lane


From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Isolation tests still falling over routinely
Date: 2011-10-14 16:04:29
Message-ID: 1318608098-sup-6635@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar sep 20 21:30:42 -0300 2011:
>
> The buildfarm is still showing isolation test failures more days than
> not, eg
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pika&dt=2011-09-17%2012%3A43%3A11
> and I've personally seen such failures when testing with
> CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. Could we please fix those tests to not have such
> fragile timing assumptions?

The fix has now been installed for two weeks and no new failure has
occured. The only failure in the IsolationCheck phase since then was
caused by a disk filling up (and it wasn't in the fk-* tests anyway).
I think we can consider this issue fixed.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Isolation tests still falling over routinely
Date: 2011-10-14 16:08:54
Message-ID: 1388.1318608534@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar sep 20 21:30:42 -0300 2011:
>> Could we please fix those tests to not have such
>> fragile timing assumptions?

> The fix has now been installed for two weeks and no new failure has
> occured. The only failure in the IsolationCheck phase since then was
> caused by a disk filling up (and it wasn't in the fk-* tests anyway).
> I think we can consider this issue fixed.

Yeah, it looks good. Thanks!

regards, tom lane