Re: Unstable tests for recovery conflict handling

Hi,

On 2022-07-26 13:57:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I happened to notice that while skink continues to fail off-and-on
> in 031_recovery_conflict.pl, the symptoms have changed!  What
> we're getting now typically looks like [1]:
> 
> [10:45:11.475](0.023s) ok 14 - startup deadlock: lock acquisition is waiting
> Waiting for replication conn standby's replay_lsn to pass 0/33FB8B0 on primary
> done
> timed out waiting for match: (?^:User transaction caused buffer deadlock with recovery.) at
t/031_recovery_conflict.plline 367.
 
> 
> where absolutely nothing happens in the standby log, until we time out:
> 
> 2022-07-24 10:45:11.452 UTC [1468367][client backend][2/4:0] LOG:  statement: SELECT * FROM
test_recovery_conflict_table2;
> 2022-07-24 10:45:11.472 UTC [1468547][client backend][3/2:0] LOG:  statement: SELECT 'waiting' FROM pg_locks WHERE
locktype= 'relation' AND NOT granted;
 
> 2022-07-24 10:48:15.860 UTC [1468362][walreceiver][:0] FATAL:  could not receive data from WAL stream: server closed
theconnection unexpectedly
 
> 
> So this is not a case of RecoveryConflictInterrupt doing the wrong thing:
> the startup process hasn't detected the buffer conflict in the first
> place.

I wonder if this, at least partially, could be be due to the elog thing
I was complaining about nearby. I.e. we decide to FATAL as part of a
recovery conflict interrupt, and then during that ERROR out as part of
another recovery conflict interrupt (because nothing holds interrupts as
part of FATAL).

Greetings,

Andres Freund