Hi, On 2022-11-21 15:51:05 +0000, Tom Lane wrote: > Prevent instability in contrib/pageinspect's regression test. > > pageinspect has occasionally failed on slow buildfarm members, > with symptoms indicating that the expected effects of VACUUM > FREEZE didn't happen. This is presumably because a background > transaction such as auto-analyze was holding back global xmin. > > We can work around that by using a temp table in the test. > Since commit a7212be8b, that will use an up-to-date cutoff xmin > regardless of other processes. And pageinspect itself shouldn't > really care whether the table is temp. > > Back-patch to v14. There would be no point in older branches > without back-patching a7212be8b, which seems like more trouble > than the problem is worth.
Looks like a chunk of the buildfarm doesn't like this - presumably because they use force_parallel_mode = regress. Seems ok to just force that to off in this test? Greetings, Andres Freund
