Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 05:38:34PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> It seems the error happens in both the tests when after issuing a
>> KILL, we are trying to reconnect. Can we do anything for this?
> This is the same problem as c757a3da and 6d41dd0, where we write a
> query to a pipe but the kill, causing a failure, makes the test fail
> with a SIGPIPE in IPC::Run as a query is sent down to a pipe.
Indeed.
> I think that using SELECT 1 to test if the server has been restarted
> is a bit crazy. I would suggest to use instead a loop based on
> pg_isready.
The precedent of the previous fixes would seem to suggest seeing if
we can replace 'SELECT 1' with "undef". Not sure if that'll work
without annoying changes to poll_query_until, though.
regards, tom lane