Re: TAP tests take a long time

Andrew,

* Andrew Dunstan (andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> On 04/12/2017 08:40 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > On 04/12/2017 01:27 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >> BTW, I suggest adding --timer to our default PROVE_FLAGS, so we can
> >> collect more data from the buildfarm on what takes a while. Sample
> >> output:
> >
> > I'll add that to the commandline the buildfarm uses in the upcoming release.
> 
> See
> <https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=nightjar&dt=2017-04-12%2013%3A54%3A22>
> 
> One thing I noticed was this
> 
>     [10:02:40] t/001_basic.pl ......... ok      320 ms
>     [10:02:59] t/002_pg_dump.pl ....... ok    19441 ms
>     [10:03:47] t/010_dump_connstr.pl .. ok    47430 ms
> 
> Why does the last test set take 47s?

It's doing a bunch of dropdb/createdb stuff, and also creates multiple
clusters.  Part of this is because it's generating random names for
databases to make sure they are handled correctly.  I'd certainly love
to see it take less time but I've not really done very much with it.

Thanks!

Stephen