On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I'm still bothered by the likelihood that there are cache-flush bugs in > code paths that are not exercised by the regression tests. The > CLOBBER_CACHE patch is far too slow to consider enabling on any regular > basis, but it seems that throwing in cache flushes at random intervals, > as in the test program I posted here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00244.php > doesn't provide very good test coverage. Has anyone got any ideas about > better ways to locate such bugs?
Some of the machines in the buildfarm do nothing else useful, if this was turned into a configure option it would be trivial to setup some of those machines to just hammer away at this. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
