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Use annotations to reduce instability of isolation-test results.
We've long contended with isolation test results that aren't entirely stable. Some test scripts insert long delays to try to force stable results, which is not terribly desirable; but other erratic failure modes remain, causing unrepeatable buildfarm failures. I've spent a fair amount of time trying to solve this by improving the server-side support code, without much success: that way is fundamentally unable to cope with diffs that stem from chance ordering of arrival of messages from different server processes. We can improve matters on the client side, however, by annotating the test scripts themselves to show the desired reporting order of events that might occur in different orders. This patch adds three types of annotations to deal with (a) test steps that might or might not complete their waits before the isolationtester can see them waiting; (b) test steps in different sessions that can legitimately complete in either order; and (c) NOTIFY messages that might arrive before or after the completion of a step in another session. We might need more annotation types later, but this seems to be enough to deal with the instabilities we've seen in the buildfarm. It also lets us get rid of all the long delays that were previously used, cutting more than a minute off the runtime of the isolation tests. Back-patch to all supported branches, because the buildfarm instabilities affect all the branches, and because it seems desirable to keep isolationtester's capabilities the same across all branches to simplify possible future back-patching of tests. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/327948.1623725828@sss.pgh.pa.us
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@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ step s1_insert_tbl2: INSERT INTO tbl2 (val1, val2) VALUES (1, 1);
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step s2_alter_tbl1_boolean: ALTER TABLE tbl1 ALTER COLUMN val2 TYPE boolean; <waiting ...>
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step s1_commit: COMMIT;
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step s2_alter_tbl1_boolean: <... completed>
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error in steps s1_commit s2_alter_tbl1_boolean: ERROR: column "val2" cannot be cast automatically to type boolean
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ERROR: column "val2" cannot be cast automatically to type boolean
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step s2_get_changes: SELECT data FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('isolation_slot', NULL, NULL, 'include-xids', '0', 'skip-empty-xacts', '1');
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