Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-05-02 23:44:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I can poke into that tomorrow, but are you sure that that isn't an
>> expectable result?
> It's not expected. But I think I might see what the problem is:
> We wait for the FETCH (and thus the buffer pin to be acquired). But that
> doesn't guarantee that the lock has been acquired. We can't check that with
> pump_until() afaics, because there'll not be any output. But a query_until()
> checking pg_locks should do the trick?
Irritatingly, it doesn't reproduce (at least not easily) in a manual
build on the same box. So it's almost surely a timing issue, and
your theory here seems plausible.
regards, tom lane
