The test was supposed to reproduce the bug fixed in commit 66fa176cc8,
i.e. that the clearing of the VM bit was not replayed in the
pageserver on HEAP_LOCK records. But it was broken in many ways and
failed to reproduce the original problem if you reverted the fix:
- The comparison of XIDs was broken. The test read the XID in to a
variable in python, but it was treated as a string rather than an
integer. As a result, e.g. "999" > "1000".
- The test accessed the locked tuple too early, in the loop. Accessing
it early, before the pg_xact page had been removed, set the hint bits.
That masked the problem on subsequent accesses.
- The on-demand SLRU download that was introduced in commit 9a9d9beaee
hid the issue. Even though an SLRU segment was removed by Postgres,
when it later tried to access it, it could still download it from
the pageserver. To ensure that doesn't happen, shorten the GC period
and compact and GC aggressively in the test.
I also added a more direct check that the VM page is updated, using
the get_page_at_lsn() debugging function. Right after locking the row,
we now fetch the VM page from pageserver and directly compare it with
the VM page in the page cache. They should match. That assertion is
more robust to things like on-demand SLRU download that could mask the
bug.
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