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Re: Reducing the runtime of the core regression tests

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-04-11T18:00:30Z
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On 2019-Apr-11, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> I've noticed that the coverage reported on coverage.postgresql.org
> sometimes looks contradictory, which can happen due to compiler
> optimizations. I wonder if that could be addressed in some way,
> because I find the site to be a useful resource. I would at least like
> to know the settings used by its builds.

./configure --enable-depend --enable-coverage --enable-tap-tests --enable-nls --with-python --with-perl --with-tcl --with-openssl --with-libxml --with-ldap --with-pam >> $LOG 2>&1

make -j4 >> $LOG 2>&1
make -j4 -C contrib >> $LOG 2>&1
make check-world PG_TEST_EXTRA="ssl ldap" >> $LOG 2>&1
make coverage-html >> $LOG 2>&1

There are no environment variables that would affect it.

If you want to propose changes, feel free.

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Commits

  1. Re-order some regression test scripts for more parallelism.

  2. Speed up sort-order-comparison tests in create_index_spgist.

  3. Split up a couple of long-running regression test scripts.

  4. Move plpgsql error-trapping tests to a new module-specific test file.

  5. Remove duplicative polygon SP-GiST sequencing test.

  6. Remove redundant and ineffective test for btree insertion fast path.

  7. Adjustments to the btree fastpath optimization.

  8. Increase timeout in statement_timeout test from 1 second to 2 seconds.