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Arpad Müller 1dc01c9bed Support cancellations of timelines with hanging ondemand downloads (#12330)
In `test_layer_download_cancelled_by_config_location`, we simulate hung
downloads via the `before-downloading-layer-stream-pausable` failpoint.
Then, we cancel a timeline via the `location_config` endpoint.

With the new default as of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712, we would be creating
the timeline on safekeepers regardless if there have been writes or not,
and it turns out the test relied on the timeline not existing on
safekeepers, due to a cancellation bug:

* as established before, the test makes the read path hang
* the timeline cancellation function first cancels the walreceiver, and
only then cancels the timeline's token
* `WalIngest::new` is requesting a checkpoint, which hits the read path
* at cancellation time, we'd be hanging inside the read, not seeing the
cancellation of the walreceiver
* the test would time out due to the hang

This is probably also reproducible in the wild when there is S3
unavailabilies or bottlenecks. So we thought that it's worthwhile to fix
the hang issue. The approach chosen in the end involves the
`tokio::select` macro.

In PR 11712, we originally punted on the test due to the hang and opted
it out from the new default, but now we can use the new default.

Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12299
2025-06-25 13:40:38 +00:00
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