Re: Test to dump and restore objects left behind by regression

On 2025-Mar-24, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:

> One concern I have with directory format is the dumped database is not
> readable. This might make investigating a but identified the test a
> bit more complex.

Oh, it's readable all right.  You just need to use `pg_restore -f-` to
read it.  No big deal.


So I ran this a few times:
/usr/bin/time make -j8 -Otarget -C /pgsql/build/master check-world -s PROVE_FLAGS="-c -j6" > /dev/null

commenting out the call to test_regression_dump_restore() to test how
much additional runtime does the new test incur.

With test:

136.95user 116.56system 1:13.23elapsed 346%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 250704maxresident)k
4928inputs+55333008outputs (114major+14784937minor)pagefaults 0swaps

138.11user 117.43system 1:15.54elapsed 338%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 278592maxresident)k
48inputs+55333464outputs (80major+14794494minor)pagefaults 0swaps

137.05user 113.13system 1:08.19elapsed 366%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 279272maxresident)k
48inputs+55330064outputs (83major+14758028minor)pagefaults 0swaps

without the new test:

135.46user 114.55system 1:14.69elapsed 334%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 145372maxresident)k
32inputs+55155256outputs (105major+14737549minor)pagefaults 0swaps

135.48user 114.57system 1:09.60elapsed 359%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 148224maxresident)k
16inputs+55155432outputs (95major+14749502minor)pagefaults 0swaps

133.76user 113.26system 1:14.92elapsed 329%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 148064maxresident)k
48inputs+55154952outputs (84major+14749531minor)pagefaults 0swaps

134.06user 113.83system 1:16.09elapsed 325%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 145940maxresident)k
32inputs+55155032outputs (83major+14738602minor)pagefaults 0swaps

The increase in duration here is less than a second.


My conclusion with these numbers is that it's not worth hiding this test
in PG_TEST_EXTRA.  If we really wanted to save some total test runtime,
it might be better to write a regress schedule file for
027_stream_regress.pl which only takes the test that emit useful WAL,
rather than all tests.

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