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Subject: Re: Test slots invalidations in 035_standby_logical_decoding.pl only
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Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> While thinking about that, a second idea came into my mind: a
> superuser-settable developer GUC to disable such WAL records to be
> generated within certain areas of the test.  This requires a small
> implementation, but nothing really huge, while being portable
> everywhere.  And it is not the first time I've been annoyed with these
> records when wanting a predictible set of WAL records for some test
> case.

Hmm ... I see what you are after, but to what extent would this mean
that what we are testing is not our real-world behavior?

			regards, tom lane