Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> On 2018-Jun-28, Tom Lane wrote: >>> According to buildfarm member friarbird, and as confirmed here, >>> the contrib/test_decoding/specs/oldest_xmin.spec test added by this >>> commit fails under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.
> I suppose 60 seconds (isolationtester's default timeout) is just not > enough time for those machines. We could increase it to 180 seconds and > see if that's enough to make them pass ... What I want to know is why this test is doing a database-wide VACUUM FULL in the first place. If that isn't profligate wastage of testing cycles, why not? regards, tom lane