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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Comments: In-reply-to Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I wrote:
> I think the fundamental instability here is that this TAP test is
> setting shared_buffers small enough to allow the syncscan logic
> to kick in where it does not in normal testing.  Maybe we should
> just disable syncscan in this test script?

Did that, we'll see how much it helps.

			regards, tom lane