From a360f952ff028f8b85029334c54c025c716eb68e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:39:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove race-prone hot_standby_feedback test cases in
 001_stream_rep.pl.

This script supposed that if it turned hot_standby_feedback on and then
shut down the standby server, at least one feedback message would be
guaranteed to be sent before the standby stops.  But there is no such
guarantee, if the standby's walreceiver process is slow enough --- and
we've seen multiple failures in the buildfarm showing that that does
happen in practice.  While we could rearrange the walreceiver logic to
make it less likely, it seems probably impossible to create a really
bulletproof guarantee of that sort; and if we tried, we might create
situations where the walreceiver wouldn't react in a timely manner to
shutdown commands.  It seems better instead to remove the script's
assumption that feedback will occur before shutdown.

But once we do that, these last few tests seem quite redundant with
the earlier tests in the script.  So let's just drop them altogether
and save some buildfarm cycles.

Backpatch to v10 where these tests were added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1922.1531592205@sss.pgh.pa.us
---
 src/test/recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl | 26 +-------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl
index a0d3e8f357..8dff5fc720 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use PostgresNode;
 use TestLib;
-use Test::More tests => 28;
+use Test::More tests => 26;
 
 # Initialize master node
 my $node_master = get_new_node('master');
@@ -282,27 +282,3 @@ is($catalog_xmin, '',
 is($xmin, '', 'xmin of cascaded slot null with hs feedback reset');
 is($catalog_xmin, '',
 	'catalog xmin of cascaded slot still null with hs_feedback reset');
-
-note "re-enabling hot_standby_feedback and disabling while stopped";
-$node_standby_2->safe_psql('postgres',
-	'ALTER SYSTEM SET hot_standby_feedback = on;');
-$node_standby_2->reload;
-
-$node_master->safe_psql('postgres', qq[INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (11000);]);
-replay_check();
-
-$node_standby_2->safe_psql('postgres',
-	'ALTER SYSTEM SET hot_standby_feedback = off;');
-$node_standby_2->stop;
-
-($xmin, $catalog_xmin) =
-  get_slot_xmins($node_standby_1, $slotname_2, "xmin IS NOT NULL");
-isnt($xmin, '', 'xmin of cascaded slot non-null with postgres shut down');
-
-# Xmin from a previous run should be cleared on startup.
-$node_standby_2->start;
-
-($xmin, $catalog_xmin) =
-  get_slot_xmins($node_standby_1, $slotname_2, "xmin IS NULL");
-is($xmin, '',
-	'xmin of cascaded slot reset after startup with hs feedback reset');