Hi, I've twice seen the below failure when running tests in a loop (to verify another rare issue in a patch is fixed):
diff -du10 /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/test/regress/expected/with.out /home/andres/build/postgres/dev-assert/vpath/src/test/regress/results/with.out --- /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/test/regress/expected/with.out 2020-07-21 15:03:11.239754712 -0700 +++ /home/andres/build/postgres/dev-assert/vpath/src/test/regress/results/with.out 2020-07-23 04:25:07.955839299 -0700 @@ -2207,28 +2207,30 @@ Output: a_1.ctid, a_1.aa -> CTE Scan on wcte Output: wcte.*, wcte.q2 -> Nested Loop Output: a_2.ctid, wcte.* Join Filter: (a_2.aa = wcte.q2) -> Seq Scan on public.c a_2 Output: a_2.ctid, a_2.aa -> CTE Scan on wcte Output: wcte.*, wcte.q2 - -> Nested Loop + -> Hash Join Output: a_3.ctid, wcte.* - Join Filter: (a_3.aa = wcte.q2) + Hash Cond: (a_3.aa = wcte.q2) -> Seq Scan on public.d a_3 Output: a_3.ctid, a_3.aa - -> CTE Scan on wcte + -> Hash Output: wcte.*, wcte.q2 -(38 rows) + -> CTE Scan on wcte + Output: wcte.*, wcte.q2 +(40 rows) -- error cases -- data-modifying WITH tries to use its own output WITH RECURSIVE t AS ( INSERT INTO y SELECT * FROM t ) VALUES(FALSE); ERROR: recursive query "t" must not contain data-modifying statements LINE 1: WITH RECURSIVE t AS ( Searching the archives didn't unearth other reports of the same. This was the first failure after 404 iterations of installcheck, so it's clearly not a common occurance on my machine. Greetings, Andres Freund