Re: Adding CI to our tree

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2022-01-19T01:16:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-01-18 15:08:47 -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:16:19PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I think it might still be worth adding stopgap way of running all tap tests on
> > windows though. Having a vcregress.pl function to find all directories with t/
> > and run the tests there, shouldn't be a lot of code...
> 
> I started doing that, however it makes CI/windows even slower.

To be expected... Perhaps the caching approach I just posted in [1] would buy
most of it back though...


> I think it'll be necessary to run prove with all the tap tests to
> parallelize them, rather than looping around directories, many of which have
> only a single file, and are run serially.

That's unfortunately not trivially possible. Quite a few tests currently rely
on being called in a specific directory. We should fix this, but it's not a
trivial amount of work.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

[1] https://postgr.es/m/20220119010034.javla5sakeh2a4fa%40alap3.anarazel.de



Commits

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  1. ci: enable zstd where available.

  2. ci: compile with -Og where applicable.

  3. ci: include hints how to install OS packages.

  4. ci: fix copy-paste mistake in 16eb8231d1b.

  5. ci: macos: align sysinfo_script to other tasks.

  6. ci: Only use one artifact instruction for logs.

  7. ci: s/CCACHE_SIZE/CCACHE_MAXSIZE/.

  8. pg_basebackup: Skip a few more fsyncs if --no-sync is specified.

  9. TAP tests: check for postmaster.pid anyway when "pg_ctl start" fails.

  10. Don't enable fsync in src/test/recovery/t/008_fsm_truncation.pl.

  11. ci: windows: run initdb with --no-sync.

  12. ci: windows: enable build summary to make it easier to spot warnings / errors.

  13. ci: Add continuous integration for github repositories via cirrus-ci.

  14. Fix TestLib::slurp_file() with offset on windows.