Re: pg_upgrade test failure

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 11:03 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:57 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On February 6, 2023 1:51:20 PM PST, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Next up: the new "running" tests, spuriously failing around 8.8% of CI
> > >builds on FreeBSD.  I'll go and ping that thread...
> >
> > Is that rate unchanged? I thought I fixed the main issue last week?
>
> Unfortunately my cfbot database only holds a week's history.  What I
> see is that there were 1254 FreeBSD tasks run in that window, of which
> 163 failed, and (more interestingly) 111 of those failures succeeded
> on every other platform.  And clicking on a few on cfbot's page
> reveals that it's the new running stuff, and I'm still trying to find
> the interesting logs...

Ah, that number might include some other problems, including in
subscription (#2900).  That's the problem with flapping tests, you get
desensitised and stop looking closely and miss things...