Fix the race condition in the test added by 7c99dc587.

After executing ALTER SUBSCRIPTION tap_sub SET PUBLICATION, we did not
wait for the new walsender process to restart. As a result, an INSERT
executed immediately after the ALTER could be decoded and skipped,
considering it is not part of any subscribed publication. And, the old
apply worker could also confirm the LSN of such an INSERT. This could
cause the replication to resume from a point after the INSERT. In such
cases, we miss the expected warning about the missing publication.

To fix this, ensure the walsender has restarted before continuing after
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.

Reported-by: Tom Lane as per CI
Author: vignesh C <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1230066.1745992333@sss.pgh.pa.us

diff --git a/src/test/subscription/t/024_add_drop_pub.pl b/src/test/subscription/t/024_add_drop_pub.pl
index b594941c7cb4295b2db7c8ea1d5ce1c086a3592a..e995d8b3839016695d25db63f393b92b7cae9139 100644 (file)
--- a/src/test/subscription/t/024_add_drop_pub.pl
+++ b/src/test/subscription/t/024_add_drop_pub.pl
@@ -91,10 +91,21 @@ is($result, qq(20|1|10), 'check initial data is copied to subscriber');
 $node_publisher->safe_psql('postgres', "CREATE TABLE tab_3 (a int)");
 $node_subscriber->safe_psql('postgres', "CREATE TABLE tab_3 (a int)");
 
+my $oldpid = $node_publisher->safe_psql('postgres',
+   "SELECT pid FROM pg_stat_replication WHERE application_name = 'tap_sub' AND state = '';"
+);
+
 # Set the subscription with a missing publication
 $node_subscriber->safe_psql('postgres',
    "ALTER SUBSCRIPTION tap_sub SET PUBLICATION tap_pub_3");
 
+# Wait for the walsender to restart after altering the subscription
+$node_publisher->poll_query_until('postgres',
+   "SELECT pid != $oldpid FROM pg_stat_replication WHERE application_name = 'tap_sub' AND state = '';"
+  )
+  or die
+  "Timed out while waiting for apply worker to restart after altering the subscription";
+
 my $offset = -s $node_publisher->logfile;
 
 $node_publisher->safe_psql('postgres',"INSERT INTO tab_3 values(1)");