Re: [HACKERS] src/test/subscription/t/005_encoding.pl is broken

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-09-18 11:50:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The reason seems to be that its method of waiting for replication
>> to happen is completely inapropos.  It's watching for the master
>> to say that the slave has received all the WAL, but that does not
>> ensure that the logicalrep apply workers have caught up, does it?

> To my knowledge here's not really any difference between the two in
> logical replication. Received changes are immediately applied, there's
> no equivalent to a walreceiver queing up "logical wal" onto disk.

> So I'm not sure that theory holds.

Well, there's *something* wrong with this test's wait method.
        regards, tom lane


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