Add skip-empty-xacts option to test_decoding for use in the regression tests.
The regression tests for contrib/test_decoding regularly failed on
postgres instances that were very slow. Either because the hardware
itself was slow or because very expensive debugging options like
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS were used.
The reason they failed was just that some additional transactions were
decoded. Analyze and vacuum, triggered by autovac.
To fix just add a option to test_decoding to only display transactions
in which a change was actually displayed. That's not pretty because it
removes information from the tests; but better than constantly failing
tests in very likely harmless ways.
Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.
Discussion: 20140629142511.GA26930@awork2.anarazel.de
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d6fa44fce7c27459e2d7a46cca18779b765c8b15
Modified Files
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.../test_decoding/expected/concurrent_ddl_dml.out | 124 +++++---------------
contrib/test_decoding/expected/ddl.out | 80 ++++---------
.../test_decoding/expected/decoding_in_xact.out | 8 +-
contrib/test_decoding/expected/permissions.out | 6 +-
contrib/test_decoding/expected/prepared.out | 12 +-
contrib/test_decoding/expected/rewrite.out | 30 +----
contrib/test_decoding/expected/toast.out | 18 +--
.../test_decoding/specs/concurrent_ddl_dml.spec | 2 +-
contrib/test_decoding/sql/ddl.sql | 30 ++---
contrib/test_decoding/sql/decoding_in_xact.sql | 4 +-
contrib/test_decoding/sql/permissions.sql | 6 +-
contrib/test_decoding/sql/prepared.sql | 2 +-
contrib/test_decoding/sql/rewrite.sql | 4 +-
contrib/test_decoding/sql/toast.sql | 2 +-
contrib/test_decoding/test_decoding.c | 45 ++++++-
15 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)