Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLY8t-0000qg-5Z for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:14:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLY8s-0006L3-07 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:14:46 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLY8r-0006Kw-PO for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:14:45 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLY8p-00031c-Kv for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:14:44 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id 036KEcRp005596; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:14:38 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Tomas Vondra cc: James Coleman , Alvaro Herrera , Michael Paquier , Rafia Sabih , Peter Geoghegan , Simon Riggs , Shaun Thomas , Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov , PostgreSQL Developers , Andreas Karlsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort) In-reply-to: <20200406201145.ig56cdzrkt4u5mou@development> References: <20200401214215.ut6b72e3zlbm33w2@development> <20200402024746.5wlwk6q7eiv5faux@development> <20200403002028.kp3rxncmwvsui6xz@development> <20200405130110.2bdxaz4ed5jx2eae@development> <20200406195722.teiha6foiy3lix3s@development> <20200406201145.ig56cdzrkt4u5mou@development> Comments: In-reply-to Tomas Vondra message dated "Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:11:45 +0200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5594.1586204078.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:14:38 -0400 Message-ID: <5595.1586204078@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Tomas Vondra writes: > Hmmm, I see the buildfarm is not happy about it - a couple of animals > failed, but some succeeded. The failure seems like a simple difference > in explain output, but it's not clear why would it happen (and I've > ran the tests many times but never seen this failure). Did you ever use force_parallel_mode = regress? regards, tom lane