From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
        Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX INDEX results in a crash for an index of pg_class since
 9.6
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Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I'm not wild to go for a separate TAP test. A separate initdb cycle for
> a a tests that takes about 30ms seems a bit over the top.

Fair enough.

> So I'm
> inclined to either try running it in a serial step on the buildfarm
> (survived a few dozen cycles with -DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE
> -DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, and a few with -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS), or
> just remove them alltogether. Or remove it alltogether until we fix
> this.  Since you indicated a preference agains the former, I'll remove
> it in a bit until I hear otherwise.

> I'll add it to my todo list to try to fix the concurrency issues for 13.

If you're really expecting to have a go at that during the v13 cycle,
I think we could live without these test cases till then.

			regards, tom lane