Unstable regression test for contrib/pageinspect

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От Tom Lane
Тема Unstable regression test for contrib/pageinspect
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Msg-id 2892135.1668976646@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ответы Re: Unstable regression test for contrib/pageinspect  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Re: Unstable regression test for contrib/pageinspect  (Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>)
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My very slow buildfarm animal mamba has failed pageinspect
several times [1][2][3][4] with this symptom:

diff -U3 /home/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/contrib/pageinspect/expected/page.out
/home/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/contrib/pageinspect/results/page.out
--- /home/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/contrib/pageinspect/expected/page.out    2022-11-20 10:12:51.780935488
-0500
+++ /home/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/contrib/pageinspect/results/page.out    2022-11-20 14:00:25.818743985
-0500
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@
 SELECT t_infomask, t_infomask2, raw_flags, combined_flags
 FROM heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test1', 0)),
      LATERAL heap_tuple_infomask_flags(t_infomask, t_infomask2);
- t_infomask | t_infomask2 |                         raw_flags                         |   combined_flags
-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------
-       2816 |           2 | {HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED,HEAP_XMIN_INVALID,HEAP_XMAX_INVALID} | {HEAP_XMIN_FROZEN}
+ t_infomask | t_infomask2 |                raw_flags                | combined_flags
+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------------+----------------
+       2304 |           2 | {HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED,HEAP_XMAX_INVALID} | {}
 (1 row)

 -- tests for decoding of combined flags

It's not hard to guess what the problem is here: the immediately preceding
bit is hopelessly optimistic.

-- If we freeze the only tuple on test1, the infomask should
-- always be the same in all test runs.
VACUUM (FREEZE, DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) test1;

The fact that you asked for a freeze doesn't mean you'll get a freeze.
I suppose that a background auto-analyze is holding back global xmin
so that the tuple doesn't actually get frozen.

The core reloptions.sql and vacuum.sql tests are two places that are
also using this option, but they are applying it to temp tables,
which I think makes it safe (and the lack of failures, seeing that
they run within parallel test groups, reinforces that).  Can we apply
that idea in pageinspect?

contrib/amcheck and contrib/pg_visibility are also using
DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING, so I wonder if they have similar hazards.
I haven't seen them fall over, though.

            regards, tom lane

[1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mamba&dt=2022-11-20%2015%3A13%3A19
[2] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mamba&dt=2022-10-31%2013%3A33%3A35
[3] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mamba&dt=2022-10-19%2016%3A34%3A07
[4] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mamba&dt=2022-08-29%2017%3A49%3A02



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