On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:43 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I don't remember how many times in the last few years when I've had to > hack the backend to produce a test case that involves a weird race > condition across multiple processes running in the backend, to be able > to prove a point or just test a fix (one recent case: 2b8e5273e949). > Usually, I come to hardcoding stuff for the following situations: > - Trigger a PANIC, to force recovery. > - A FATAL, to take down a session, or just an ERROR. > - palloc() failure injection. > - Sleep to slow down a code path. > - Pause and release with condition variable. +1 for the feature. TWIMW, here[1] is an interesting talk from pgconf.in 2020 on the similar topic. 1] https://pgconf.in/conferences/pgconfin2020/program/proposals/101 Regards, Amul Sul
