On 27 August 2017 at 03:32, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:09:00PM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>> On 24/08/17 19:54, Tom Lane wrote:
>> > sungazer just failed with
>> >
>> > pg_recvlogical exited with code '256', stdout '' and stderr 'pg_recvlogical: could not send replication command
"START_REPLICATIONSLOT "test_slot" LOGICAL 0/0 ("include-xids" '0', "skip-empty-xacts" '1')": ERROR: replication slot
"test_slot"is active for PID 8913148
>> > pg_recvlogical: disconnected
>> > ' at /home/nm/farm/gcc64/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/../../../src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm line 1657.
>> >
>> > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=sungazer&dt=2017-08-24%2015%3A16%3A10
>> >
>> > Looks like we're still not there on preventing replication startup
>> > race conditions.
>>
>> Hmm, that looks like "by design" behavior. Slot acquiring will throw
>> error if the slot is already used by somebody else (slots use their own
>> locking mechanism that does not wait). In this case it seems the
>> walsender which was using slot for previous previous step didn't finish
>> releasing the slot by the time we start new command. We can work around
>> this by changing the test to wait perhaps.
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I acknowledge receipt of the reminder and will fix by end of day tomorrow.
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