Hi Alexander,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM Xuneng Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 10:58 AM Alexander Korotkov
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 7:20 AM Xuneng Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 08:25:35PM +0800, Xuneng Zhou wrote:
> > > >> > The change preserves the same coverage while removing one redundant
> > > >> > replay catch-up on the delayed standby. It appears to reduce the test
> > > >> > runtime by about 7 seconds, though I have looked into why much of the
> > > >> > improvement comes from this change alone.
> > > >>
> > > >> Alexander may think differently and remove that, but I disagree.  The
> > > >> test is clearly written so as we want two wait checks to happen, for
> > > >> for CREATE FUNCTION, and one for CREATE PROCEDURE.  Removing the first
> > > >> check to keep only the second one removes its meaning.  In short, I
> > > >> see nothing wrong to deal with here.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for the review. I agree that the two wait checks serve 
> > > > distinct purposes and are not redundant. The main motivation for this 
> > > > patch was efficiency. In my testing, the new test added approximately 7 
> > > > seconds to the runtime, while the creation of the procedure and 
> > > > function completed quickly. I suspect the latency stems from the 
> > > > wait-for-catch-up step. When I removed it, the test runtime dropped by 
> > > > about 7 seconds.I haven't yet investigated why the wait is so costly in 
> > > > this case. I should probably look into that before proposing this 
> > > > change.
> > >
> > > On my laptop the time needed to run t/049_wait_for_lsn.pl also drops
> > > from 20 secs to 12 secs.  The influence to the runtime of the whole
> > > test suite in parallel would be not that big as CPU time only drops
> > > from 2.16 sec to 2.07 sec.  But anyway that's pretty significant.
> > > I've revised comment message a bit and surrounding comments.  I'm
> > > going to push this if no objections.
> >
> > Pushed.
> >
>
> Thanks for pushing it. I haven't had time to investigate the latency
> yet, but will do it later.

While working on other things, I revisited the thread and looked into
the issue. The delayed investigation has exposed an unexpected
fragility. I'll post some findings soon.

-- 
Regards,
Xuneng Zhou
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.


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