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From: Sami Imseih <[email protected]>
To: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniil Davydov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: test_autovacuum/001_parallel_autovacuum is broken
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:54:19 -0500
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> I believe that we don't need to worry about the regexp for this test.
> Parallel vacuum would be used on all tables having more than one
> index, but we enable the autovacuum logs only on the test_autovac
> table.

ah, correct.

```
) WITH (autovacuum_parallel_workers = $autovacuum_parallel_workers,
log_autovacuum_min_duration = 0);
```

see v3 with the reverted regexp string.

Thanks!

--
Sami


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  [application/octet-stream] v3-0001-Fix-unstable-log_contains-in-parallel-autovacuum-.patch (3.2K, 2-v3-0001-Fix-unstable-log_contains-in-parallel-autovacuum-.patch)
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From bdd3552feb893dd52f25332e2c27544da22ee9f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sami Imseih <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 20:06:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] Fix unstable log_contains in parallel autovacuum tests

Replace log_contains with wait_for_log in the parallel autovacuum
test to ensure we wait for the log containing parallel vacuum info.
Remove wait_for_autovacuum_complete as the log wait is sufficient
to determine vacuum completion. The query to pg_stat_user_tables
for vacuum count in prepare_for_next_test is also removed, since
the proof of the vacuum id determined by the logging.
---
 .../t/001_parallel_autovacuum.pl              | 31 +++----------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_autovacuum/t/001_parallel_autovacuum.pl b/src/test/modules/test_autovacuum/t/001_parallel_autovacuum.pl
index fc4dd22f5eb..9fe0cf8a344 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_autovacuum/t/001_parallel_autovacuum.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_autovacuum/t/001_parallel_autovacuum.pl
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ if ($ENV{enable_injection_points} ne 'yes')
 }
 
 # Before each test we should disable autovacuum for 'test_autovac' table and
-# generate some dead tuples in it. Returns the current autovacuum_count of
-# the table test_autovac.
+# generate some dead tuples in it.
 sub prepare_for_next_test
 {
 	my ($node, $test_number) = @_;
@@ -26,24 +25,6 @@ sub prepare_for_next_test
 		ALTER TABLE test_autovac SET (autovacuum_enabled = false);
 		UPDATE test_autovac SET col_1 = $test_number;
 	});
-
-	my $count = $node->safe_psql(
-		'postgres', qq{
-		SELECT autovacuum_count FROM pg_stat_user_tables WHERE relname = 'test_autovac'
-	});
-
-	return $count;
-}
-
-# Wait for the table to be vacuumed by an autovacuum worker.
-sub wait_for_autovacuum_complete
-{
-	my ($node, $old_count) = @_;
-
-	$node->poll_query_until(
-		'postgres', qq{
-		SELECT autovacuum_count > $old_count FROM pg_stat_user_tables WHERE relname = 'test_autovac'
-	});
 }
 
 my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('main');
@@ -119,7 +100,7 @@ $node->safe_psql(
 # Our table has enough indexes and appropriate reloptions, so autovacuum must
 # be able to process it in parallel mode. Just check if it can do it.
 
-my $av_count = prepare_for_next_test($node, 1);
+prepare_for_next_test($node, 1);
 my $log_offset = -s $node->logfile;
 
 $node->safe_psql(
@@ -127,10 +108,8 @@ $node->safe_psql(
 	ALTER TABLE test_autovac SET (autovacuum_enabled = true);
 });
 
-# Wait until the parallel autovacuum on table is completed. At the same time,
-# we check that the required number of parallel workers has been started.
-wait_for_autovacuum_complete($node, $av_count);
-ok( $node->log_contains(
+# Wait for parallel autovacuum to complete; check worker count matches reloptions.
+ok( $node->wait_for_log(
 		qr/parallel workers: index vacuum: 2 planned, 2 launched in total/,
 		$log_offset));
 
@@ -138,7 +117,7 @@ ok( $node->log_contains(
 # Check whether parallel autovacuum leader can propagate cost-based parameters
 # to the parallel workers.
 
-$av_count = prepare_for_next_test($node, 2);
+prepare_for_next_test($node, 2);
 $log_offset = -s $node->logfile;
 
 $node->safe_psql(
-- 
2.50.1



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