I wrote: >>> (A couple of the other isolation tests do fail reliably under this >>> scenario; is it worth hardening them?)
>> Yes, I think it's worth making them pass somehow -- see commits >> f18795e7b74c, a0eae1a2eeb6. > Will look into that too. I'm not sure that adding extra expected > outputs is sane, though --- might be best to just force the intended > isolation level within those tests. Hmm, so one of the ones that fails is lock-update-delete, which I see *already has* an alternate output file for serializable mode ... but it doesn't match what I get: *** /home/postgres/pgsql/src/test/isolation/expected/lock-update-delete_1.out Mon Feb 12 14:53:46 2018 --- /home/postgres/pgsql/src/test/isolation/output_iso/results/lock-update-delete.out Wed Apr 18 11:30:23 2018 *************** *** 150,156 **** t step s1l: <... completed> ! error in steps s2_unlock s1l: ERROR: could not serialize access due to concurrent update starting permutation: s2b s1l s2u s2_blocker1 s2r s2_unlock pg_advisory_lock --- 150,158 ---- t step s1l: <... completed> ! key value ! ! 1 1 starting permutation: s2b s1l s2u s2_blocker1 s2r s2_unlock pg_advisory_lock It looks like maybe this one wasn't updated in 533e9c6b0 --- would you check/confirm that? regards, tom lane