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This test has been added as of 857ee8e that has introduced the SQL function txid_status(), with the purpose of checking that a transaction ID still in-progress during a crash is correctly marked as aborted after recovery finishes. This test is unstable, and some configuration scenarios may that easier to reproduce (wal_level=minimal, wal_compression=on) because the WAL holding the information about the in-progress transaction ID may not have made it to disk yet, hence a post-crash recovery may cause the same XID to be reused, triggering a test failure. We have discussed a few approaches, like making this function force a WAL flush to make it reliable across crashes, but we don't want to pay a performance penalty in some scenarios, as well. The test could have been tweaked to enforce a checkpoint but that actually breaks the promise of the test to rely on a stable result of txid_status() after a crash. This issue has been reported a few times across the past years, with an original report from Kyotaro Horiguchi. The buildfarm machines tanager, hachi and gokiburi enable wal_compression, and fail on this test periodically. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3163112.1674762209@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210305.115011.558061052471425531.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11
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