Re: Running make check-world in buildfarm (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Use SASLprep to normalize passwords for SCRAM authentication.)

On 2017-04-08 23:01:06 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Hmm. It looks like none of the buildfarm members are running the
> > authentication tests. Nor recovery tests, nor subscription tests. We're
> > missing a trick here, at least some of the buildfarm members really ought to
> > run "make check-world", we're missing a lot of coverage otherwise.
> 
> I recall that Andrew has been favoring as much as possible one folder
> path per test series in the buildfarm client (perhaps to keep the
> tests separated and have the logs easier to analyze?). I would not
> mind much if this is replaced by a pure make check-world, which is
> what most of the serious hackers do, or at least a make check running
> from src/test to save us a lot of maintenance pain.

I think it's partially knowing which target failed, and which
regression.diffs to display.  If we were able to revamp check-world so
it outputs a list of targets the regression machinery were able to run
individually, it'd probably help?

- Andres