The latest buildfarm failures show that after the insert, we don't
actually wait long enough for WAL summarization to catch up, apparently
because the on disk state gets updated before the in-memory state, and
so by checking the on disk state to see whether we're caught up and then
the in-memory state to see where exactly how far we've progressed, we
can, if unlucky, derive an older value of summarized_lsn, messing up
the rest of the test.
Attempt to fix this by using pg_available_wal_summaries() everywhere in
the test and pg_get_wal_summarizer_state() nowhere.
Per buildfarm.
Make the new tuple larger than the old one so that it, hopefully, won't
manage to squeeze into leftover freespace on the same page. The test
is trying to verify that the UPDATE touches 2 pages, but if a HOT
update happens, then it doesn't.
Per buildfarm.
Analysis of buildfarm results showed that the code that was intended
to wait for the inserts performed by this test to complete did not
actually do so. Try to make that logic more robust.
Improve error checking elsewhere in the script, too, so that we
don't miss things like poll_query_until failing.
Along the way, fix a bit of pgindent damage introduced by commit
5ddf997347, which aimed to help us
debug the failures that this commit is trying to fix. It's making
the buildfarm sad.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobWFb8NqyfC31YnKAbZiXf9tLuwmyuvx=iYMXMniPQ4nw@mail.gmail.com
The tests in 002_blocks.pl are failing in the buildfarm from time to
time, but we don't know how to reproduce the failure elsewhere. The
most obvious explanation seems to be the unexpected disappearance of a
WAL summary file, so bump up the logging level in
RemoveWalSummaryIfOlderThan to try to help us spot such problems, and
print the cutoff time in addition to the removed filename. Also
adjust 002_blocks.pl to dump out a directory listing of the relevant
directory at various points.
This patch should be reverted once we sort out what's happening here.
Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, who also reported the issue.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20240124170846.GA2643050@nathanxps13
This can dump the contents of the WAL summary files found in
pg_wal/summaries. Normally, this shouldn't really be something anyone
needs to do, but it may be needed for debugging problems with
incremental backup, or could possibly be useful to external tools.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
Robert Haas
Alvaro Herrera