Change recently added test code for stability

The test code added with ff9f111bce24 fails under valgrind, and probably
other slow cases too, because if (say) autovacuum runs in between and
produces WAL of its own, the large INSERT fails to account for that in
the LSN calculations.  Rewrite to use a DO loop.

Per complaint from Andres Freund

Backpatch to all branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211013180338[email protected]

diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/026_overwrite_contrecord.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/026_overwrite_contrecord.pl
index 1725a97531805771a6452c90a2a0016dc9b34502..b7d3b6e03d4b72e36deda6c2a57dadb85f567b29 100644 (file)
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/026_overwrite_contrecord.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/026_overwrite_contrecord.pl
@@ -22,27 +22,32 @@ $node->init(allows_streaming => 1);
 $node->append_conf('postgresql.conf', 'wal_keep_size=1GB');
 $node->start;
 
-$node->safe_psql('postgres', 'create table filler (a int)');
-# First, measure how many bytes does the insertion of 1000 rows produce
-my $start_lsn =
-  $node->safe_psql('postgres', q{select pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() - '0/0'});
-$node->safe_psql('postgres',
-   'insert into filler select * from generate_series(1, 1000)');
-my $end_lsn =
-  $node->safe_psql('postgres', q{select pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() - '0/0'});
-my $rows_walsize = $end_lsn - $start_lsn;
+$node->safe_psql('postgres', 'create table filler (a int, b text)');
 
 # Now consume all remaining room in the current WAL segment, leaving
 # space enough only for the start of a largish record.
 $node->safe_psql(
-   'postgres', qq{
-WITH setting AS (
-  SELECT setting::int AS wal_segsize
-    FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'wal_segment_size'
-)
-INSERT INTO filler
-SELECT g FROM setting,
-  generate_series(1, 1000 * (wal_segsize - ((pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() - '0/0') % wal_segsize)) / $rows_walsize) g
+   'postgres', q{
+DO $$
+DECLARE
+    wal_segsize int := setting::int FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'wal_segment_size';
+    remain int;
+    iters  int := 0;
+BEGIN
+    LOOP
+        INSERT into filler
+        select g, repeat(md5(g::text), (random() * 60 + 1)::int)
+        from generate_series(1, 10) g;
+
+        remain := wal_segsize - (pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() - '0/0') % wal_segsize;
+        IF remain < 2 * setting::int from pg_settings where name = 'block_size' THEN
+            RAISE log 'exiting after % iterations, % bytes to end of WAL segment', iters, remain;
+            EXIT;
+        END IF;
+        iters := iters + 1;
+    END LOOP;
+END
+$$;
 });
 
 my $initfile = $node->safe_psql('postgres',