Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> Looks good. That is basically a defect in commit c09850992; the race passed
> from irrelevance to relevance when that commit subjected more segments to the
> test. Thanks for diagnosing it.
The bug's far older than that, surely, since before c09850992 we treated
*any* shmat failure as meaning we'd better fail. I think you're right
that c09850992 might've made it slightly more probable, but most likely
the bottom line here is just that we haven't been doing parallel
check-worlds a lot until relatively recently. The buildfarm would be
kind of unlikely to hit this I think --- AFAIK it doesn't launch multiple
postmasters using the same port number concurrently. But parallel
invocation of TAP test scripts makes the hazard real.
Will go fix/backpatch in a minute.
regards, tom lane