On 2024-Mar-28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> writes:
>
> > I think we don't really want to make the timeout too short. Otherwise
> > the query might get cancelled before we push any query down to the
> > FDW. I guess that means that for some slow machines even 10ms is not
> > enough to make the test do the intended purpose. I'd keep it at 10ms,
> > which seems long enough for normal systems, while still being pretty
> > short.
>
> If the test fails both when the machine is too slow and when it's
> too fast, then there's zero hope of making it stable and we should
> just remove it.
It doesn't fail when it's too fast -- it's just that it doesn't cover
the case we want to cover.
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