Hello, Adrian.
As I said days ago, I have arranged a kind of stress test in production environment.
I wrote a program that loads a temporary table, loads 2049 rows into them from a baseline_table and finally declare two nested cursors.
The first cursor is on the temp table as parent while the second is on a lookup table as child.

The program logic is the transposition of one fragment of several production programs that was failing on cursors, and has to be intended as a POC only.

The program has been wrote in both pure C with libpq (see attached source program) and in 4Js Genero language.

Each program was executed by a shell script loop who ran 10 times the program each minute with 1 second sleep between each run (see attachment).

An automatic scheduler has continuously submitted 4 parallel tasks (two for C version and two for 4Js version programs).

The test was started the Dec, 29 2024 and it was kept in execution for many days directly in production environment.
In total, nearly a billion of child test cursors were executed while all other production tasks was running (normally 20 to 30 concurrent batch services on a pool of 100).

And Well, I'm quite confused: no error at all has been detected, not only on the test programs but in the whole production system. The error was completely disappeared.

Then I have stopped the four tasks of the stress test leaving all other services running for a week, and again no error at all.

No setup was changed nor servers was rebooted, nor infrastructure has been upgraded during the test period.

As a result, at the moment I'm not understood not only Why & Where the error was occurring, but also Why it is disappeared.

Anyone may feel free to give me his opinion.
For the moment I'll make no other test unless the error is knocking back to my door.

Enrico Schenone
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Il 26/12/24 00:20, Adrian Klaver ha scritto:

On 12/24/24 14:23, Enrico Schenone wrote:

Hi, Adrian.
I'm arranging a test program with two nested cursors in two versions:

1. 4Js Genero BDL language
2. pure C with libpq language

I'll put both programs in stress execution into the production environment looking for some hours how they behaves.
Possible combinations are:

1. no-one throws an error
2. only the 4Js Genero version throws an error
3. only the pure C version throws an error
4. both versions throws the error

This stress test should address further investigations.
I'll keep you informed.

Yes, would like to see how this turns out.

Regards.
Enrico Schenone