On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:08:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
>> While thinking about that, a second idea came into my mind: a
>> superuser-settable developer GUC to disable such WAL records to be
>> generated within certain areas of the test. This requires a small
>> implementation, but nothing really huge, while being portable
>> everywhere. And it is not the first time I've been annoyed with these
>> records when wanting a predictible set of WAL records for some test
>> case.
>
> Hmm ... I see what you are after, but to what extent would this mean
> that what we are testing is not our real-world behavior?
Don't think so. We don't care much about these records when it comes
to checking slot invalidation scenarios with a predictible XID
horizon, AFAIK.
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Michael