Remove recovery test 011_crash_recovery.pl

This test has been added as of 857ee8e that has introduced the SQL
function txid_status(), with the purpose of checking that a transaction
ID still in-progress during a crash is correctly marked as aborted after
recovery finishes.

This test is unstable, and some configuration scenarios may that easier
to reproduce (wal_level=minimal, wal_compression=on) because the WAL
holding the information about the in-progress transaction ID may not
have made it to disk yet, hence a post-crash recovery may cause the same
XID to be reused, triggering a test failure.

We have discussed a few approaches, like making this function force a
WAL flush to make it reliable across crashes, but we don't want to pay a
performance penalty in some scenarios, as well.  The test could have
been tweaked to enforce a checkpoint but that actually breaks the
promise of the test to rely on a stable result of txid_status() after
a crash.

This issue has been reported a few times across the past years, with an
original report from Kyotaro Horiguchi.  The buildfarm machines tanager,
hachi and gokiburi enable wal_compression, and fail on this test
periodically.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3163112.1674762209@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210305.115011.558061052471425531.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11

diff --git a/src/test/recovery/meson.build b/src/test/recovery/meson.build
index edaaa1a3ce573b4f45a392e1ccbde5f79f6eb783..209118a639c30c9b1d3a416785932f7550030d9c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/test/recovery/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/recovery/meson.build
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ tests += {
       't/008_fsm_truncation.pl',
       't/009_twophase.pl',
       't/010_logical_decoding_timelines.pl',
-      't/011_crash_recovery.pl',
       't/012_subtransactions.pl',
       't/013_crash_restart.pl',
       't/014_unlogged_reinit.pl',

diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 5f945d2..0000000
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-
-# Copyright (c) 2021-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
-
-#
-# Tests relating to PostgreSQL crash recovery and redo
-#
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster;
-use PostgreSQL::Test::Utils;
-use Test::More;
-
-my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('primary');
-$node->init(allows_streaming => 1);
-$node->start;
-
-my ($stdin, $stdout, $stderr) = ('', '', '');
-
-# Ensure that pg_xact_status reports 'aborted' for xacts
-# that were in-progress during crash. To do that, we need
-# an xact to be in-progress when we crash and we need to know
-# its xid.
-my $tx = IPC::Run::start(
-   [
-       'psql', '-X', '-qAt', '-v', 'ON_ERROR_STOP=1', '-f', '-', '-d',
-       $node->connstr('postgres')
-   ],
-   '<',
-   \$stdin,
-   '>',
-   \$stdout,
-   '2>',
-   \$stderr);
-$stdin .= q[
-BEGIN;
-CREATE TABLE mine(x integer);
-SELECT pg_current_xact_id();
-];
-$tx->pump until $stdout =~ /[[:digit:]]+[\r\n]$/;
-
-# Status should be in-progress
-my $xid = $stdout;
-chomp($xid);
-
-is($node->safe_psql('postgres', qq[SELECT pg_xact_status('$xid');]),
-   'in progress', 'own xid is in-progress');
-
-# Crash and restart the postmaster
-$node->stop('immediate');
-$node->start;
-
-# Make sure we really got a new xid
-cmp_ok($node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_current_xact_id()'),
-   '>', $xid, 'new xid after restart is greater');
-
-# and make sure we show the in-progress xact as aborted
-is($node->safe_psql('postgres', qq[SELECT pg_xact_status('$xid');]),
-   'aborted', 'xid is aborted after crash');
-
-$stdin .= "\\q\n";
-$tx->finish;    # wait for psql to quit gracefully
-
-done_testing();