Re: Add resource intensiveness as a reason to not running tests by default

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-07T11:24:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 7 Sep 2023, at 13:09, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:

> With f47ed79cc8, the test suite doesn't run 'wal_consistency_checking'
> as default because it is resource intensive; but regress docs doesn't
> state resource intensiveness as a reason for not running tests by
> default. So, I created a patch for updating the docs.

Agreed, the current wording lacks the mention of skipping tests due to high
resource usage.  Patch looks good from a quick skim, I'll backpatch it down to
15 which is where PG_TEST_EXTRA was first used in this capacity.

--
Daniel Gustafsson




Commits

  1. doc: Extend documentation of PG_TEST_EXTRA