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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:33:25 +0900
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Termination of Background Workers for ALTER/DROP
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 08:00:00AM +0200, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> I've noticed another failure of the test from widowbird: [1]. But probably
> it's not related to f1e251be8 directly, as widowbird failed with a similar
> error before: [2]. I couldn't reproduce such failures yet, but keep
> trying in the background...
>=20
> [1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=3Dwidowbird&d=
t=3D2026-03-16%2009%3A35%3A03
> [2] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=3Dwidowbird&d=
t=3D2025-10-25%2010%3A35%3A03

Thanks.  widowbird also uses "debug_parallel_query =3D regress", so it
really looks like to me that this is related to a parallel worker
spawning and messing with the database being renamed.
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Michael

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