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| -rw-r--r-- | src/test/perl/TestLib.pm | 23 |
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diff --git a/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm b/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm index 0b9cd2cd99d..f409a30acaf 100644 --- a/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm +++ b/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm @@ -315,6 +315,29 @@ sub perl2host =pod +=item has_wal_read_bug() + +Returns true if $tmp_check is subject to a sparc64+ext4 bug that causes WAL +readers to see zeros if another process simultaneously wrote the same offsets. +Consult this in tests that fail frequently on affected configurations. The +bug has made streaming standbys fail to advance, reporting corrupt WAL. It +has made COMMIT PREPARED fail with "could not read two-phase state from WAL". +Non-WAL PostgreSQL reads haven't been affected, likely because those readers +and writers have buffering systems in common. See +https://postgr.es/m/20220116210241.GC756210@rfd.leadboat.com for details. + +=cut + +sub has_wal_read_bug +{ + return + $Config{osname} eq 'linux' + && $Config{archname} =~ /^sparc/ + && !run_log([ qw(df -x ext4), $tmp_check ], '>', '/dev/null', '2>&1'); +} + +=pod + =item system_log(@cmd) Run (via C<system()>) the command passed as argument; the return |