Hi, On 2019-04-30 18:42:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > markhor just reported in with results showing that we have worse > problems than deadlock-prone tests in the back branches: 9.4 > for example looks like
> -- whole tables > REINDEX TABLE pg_class; -- mapped, non-shared, critical > + ERROR: could not read block 0 in file "base/16384/27769": read only 0 of > 8192 bytes Ugh. Also failed on 9.6. > Given this, I'm rethinking my position that we can dispense with these > test cases. Let's try putting them in a standalone test script, and > see whether that leads to failures or not. Even if it does, we'd > better keep them until we've got a fully clean bill of health from > the buildfarm. Yea. Seems likely this indicates a proper, distinct, bug :/ I'll move the test into a new "reindex_catalog" test, with a comment explaining that the failure cases necessitating that are somewhere between bugs, ugly warts, an hard to fix edge cases. Greetings, Andres Freund
