tests: update test_broken_timeline

test_runner/regress/test_broken_timeline.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from fixtures.types import TenantId, TimelineId
 
 # Test restarting page server, while safekeeper and compute node keep
 # running.
-def test_broken_timeline(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder):
+def test_local_corruption(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder):
     env = neon_env_builder.init_start()
 
     env.pageserver.allowed_errors.extend(
@@ -69,20 +69,13 @@ def test_broken_timeline(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder):
 
     env.pageserver.start()
 
-    # Tenant 0 should still work
+    # Un-damaged tenant works
     pg0.start()
     assert pg0.safe_psql("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t")[0][0] == 100
 
-    # But all others are broken
-
-    # First timeline would not get loaded into pageserver due to corrupt metadata file
-    with pytest.raises(
-        Exception, match=f"Tenant {tenant1} will not become active. Current state: Broken"
-    ) as err:
-        pg1.start()
-    log.info(
-        f"As expected, compute startup failed eagerly for timeline with corrupt metadata: {err}"
-    )
+    # Tenant with corrupt local metadata works: remote storage is authoritative for metadata
+    pg1.start()
+    assert pg1.safe_psql("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t")[0][0] == 100
 
     # Second timeline will fail during basebackup, because the local layer file is corrupt.
     # It will fail when we try to read (and reconstruct) a page from it, ergo the error message.