Re: Visibility regression test

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:37:39 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
>>> Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at> writes:
>> A new regression test trying to detect runaway INSERTs/UPDATEs.
>
>If there is such a problem it will surely be found by the other
>regression tests.

That's what I hoped when I sent my heap tuple header patches.
Actually this test catches a bug, which was in CVS from 2002-07-02
until 2002-07-30 and was not discovered during this time.  You have to
know, that I am a lazy person :-)  I wouldn't have written this test,
if the bug was found by one of the other tests.

>  I don't see a need to insert a test that has an
>acknowledged system dependency in order to detect this.

You mean, that the test might fail on a system that takes more than
ten seconds to INSERT or UPDATE a single row?  I don't think this is a
real problem.  Should we change the timeout to 30 seconds?  60?  3600?

Servus
 Manfred