Re: failures in t/031_recovery_conflict.pl on CI

Hi,

On 2022-07-26 12:47:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > Hey, I just noticed that these tests are still disabled.  The next
> > minors are coming soon; should we wait until *those* are done and then
> > re-enable; or re-enable them now to see how they fare and then
> > re-disable before the next minors if there's still problems we don't
> > find fixes for?
> 
> Maybe I missed it, but I don't think anything's been done to fix the
> test's problems in the back branches.

Yea, I don't think either. What's worse, there's several actual problems
in the recovery conflict code in all branches - which causes occasional
failures of the test in HEAD as well.

There's one big set of fixes in
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGKrLKx7Ky1T_FHk-Y729K0oie-gOXKCbxCXyjbPDJAOOw%40mail.gmail.com

and I suspect it'll be hard to have test be fully reliable without
addressing
https://postgr.es/m/20220715172938.t7uivghdx5vj36cn%40awork3.anarazel.de

Greetings,

Andres Freund