Re: BUG #17928: Standby fails to decode WAL on termination of primary

On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:07:30AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I rebased (bumped the test number 038 -> 039), updated the commit
> message[1], tested on a big endian machine (AIX/POWER), but then I
> found there is something not quite right or stable with the WAL
> positioning logic.  On one of my machines, but not another, the
> back-patch to 12 fails in one of the tests unless I hack it to insert
> a bit more WAL, and I think that's telling me that Perl code to
> control the insertion point is not quite bullet proof enough yet.
> I'll need to dig into this some more on Monday.
>
> [1] https://github.com/macdice/postgres/commits/fix-12

Hmm.  What was the test that failed?
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Michael