Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > Looks good. That is basically a defect in commit c09850992; the race passed > from irrelevance to relevance when that commit subjected more segments to the > test. Thanks for diagnosing it.
The bug's far older than that, surely, since before c09850992 we treated *any* shmat failure as meaning we'd better fail. I think you're right that c09850992 might've made it slightly more probable, but most likely the bottom line here is just that we haven't been doing parallel check-worlds a lot until relatively recently. The buildfarm would be kind of unlikely to hit this I think --- AFAIK it doesn't launch multiple postmasters using the same port number concurrently. But parallel invocation of TAP test scripts makes the hazard real. Will go fix/backpatch in a minute. regards, tom lane