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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-05-05 22:07:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> May I ask where we're at on this?  Next week's back-branch release is
>> getting uncomfortably close, and I'm still seeing various buildfarm
>> animals erratically failing on 031_recovery_conflict.pl.

> Looks like the problems are gone on HEAD at least.

It does look that way, although the number of successes is not large yet.

>> Should we just remove that test from the back branches for now?

> That might be the best course, marking the test as TODO perhaps?

I poked closer and saw that you reverted 5136967f1 et al because
(I suppose) adjust_conf is not there in the back branches.  While
I'd certainly support back-patching that functionality, I think
we need to have a discussion about how to do it.  I wonder whether
we shouldn't drop src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/... into the back branches
in toto and make the old test APIs into a wrapper around the new ones
instead of vice versa.  But that's definitely not a task to undertake
three days before a release deadline.

So I reluctantly vote for removing 031_recovery_conflict.pl in the
back branches for now, with the expectation that we'll fix the
infrastructure and put it back after the current release round
is done.

            regards, tom lane