On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm also wondering a bit why the issue isn't affecting the newer
> branches. It's certainly not because we made the test shorter ...
I looked at htop while it was building the 9.x branches and saw
pg_basebackup sitting in D state waiting for glacial I/O. Perhaps
this was improved by the --no-sync option that got sprinkled around
the place in later releases?