Starting in cc50080a82 create_index test fails when run with
synchronous_commit=off. synchronous_commit=off delays when hint bits may be
set. Some plans change depending on the number of all-visible pages, which in
turn can be influenced by the delayed hint bits.
Force synchronous_commit to `on` in test_setup.sql. Not very satisfying, but
there's no obvious alternative.
Reported-By: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAJ7c6TPJNof1Q+vJsy3QebgbPgXdu2ErPvYkBdhD6_Ckv5EZRg@mail.gmail.com
The idea behind this patch is to make it possible to run individual
test scripts without running the entire core test suite. Making all
the scripts completely independent would involve a massive rewrite,
and would probably be worse for coverage of things like concurrent DDL.
So this patch just does what seems practical with limited changes.
The net effect is that any test script can be run after running
limited earlier dependencies:
* all scripts depend on test_setup
* many scripts depend on create_index
* other dependencies are few in number, and are documented in
the parallel_schedule file.
To accomplish this, I chose a small number of commonly-used tables
and moved their creation and filling into test_setup. Later scripts
are expected not to modify these tables' data contents, for fear of
affecting other scripts' results. Also, our former habit of declaring
all C functions in one place is now gone in favor of declaring them
where they're used, if that's just one script, or in test_setup if
necessary.
There's more that could be done to remove some of the remaining
inter-script dependencies, but significantly more-invasive changes
would be needed, and at least for now it doesn't seem worth it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1114748.1640383217@sss.pgh.pa.us
In the wake of commit b073c3ccd, it's necessary to grant create
permissions on the public schema to PUBLIC to get many of the
core regression test scripts to pass. That commit did so via the
quick-n-dirty expedient of adding the GRANT to the tablespace test,
which runs first. This is problematic for single-machine
replication testing, though. The least painful way to run the
regression tests on such a setup is to skip the tablespace test,
and that no longer works.
To fix, let's invent a separate "test_setup" script to run first,
and put the GRANT there. Revert b073c3ccd's changes to
the tablespace.source files.
In the future it might be good to try to reduce coupling between
the various test scripts by having test_setup create widely-used
objects, with the goal that most of the scripts could run after
having run only test_setup. That's going to take some effort,
so this commit just addresses my immediate pain point.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1363170.1639763559@sss.pgh.pa.us
Andres Freund
Tom Lane