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Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
> Ah, I haven't noticed the last couple messagess, mentioning dikkop. Not
> sure if it's the same issue - I guess we'll have to wait if the failures
> go away once it gets fixed.

> Still, it seems like a long-standing issue. It's curious dikkop started
> failing only very recently, after the OS upgrade.

Yeah.  Given that these are threading tests, I'm suspecting some
change in thread scheduling behavior in this latest FBSD release,
which somehow made it easier to hit a pre-existing issue.

			regards, tom lane