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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Fittl <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
Cc: heikki.linnakangas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_plan_advice
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 09:49:01 -0500
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 06:05:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
>> 0001 and 0002 implement the "retry a few times" idea for avoiding
>> test_plan_advice failures. I argue that (a) these are reasonable
>> post-commit stabilization that should not be blocked by feature freeze
>> and (b) most people here will be happier with a solution like this
>> that will normally cost very little than they will be with switching
>> test_plan_advice to executing serially. The RMT can decide whether it
>> agrees.
>
> I'm not on the RMT, but I agree this is a nicer solution.
> (I didn't read these patches in detail, but in a quick once-over
> they seemed plausible.)
>
>> The other question here is whether it's really a good idea to
>> apply this now considering that we've seen only one failure so far. I
>> think it's probably a good idea to do something like this before
>> release, so that we hopefully reduce the false positive rate from the
>> test to something much closer to zero, but I think we've still had
>> only the one failure, and I'm really interested in knowing how close
>> the failure rate is to zero already. The RMT may have an opinion on
>> how long to wait before doing something like this, too.
>
> No strong opinion about that. Certainly waiting a couple of weeks
> to gather more data seems reasonable.
I am only 1/3 of the RMT, but I am fine with the plan as stated.
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nathan
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