Re: Adding CI to our tree

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <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: 2022-02-13T17:13:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> This is exactly why I'm not a huge fan of having ci stuff in the tree.
> It supposes that there's one right way to do a build, but in reality,
> different people want and indeed need to use different options for all
> kinds of reasons. That's the whole value of having things like
> configure and pg_config_manual.h. When we start arguing about whether
> or ci builds should use -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES we're inevitably
> into the realm where no choice is objectively better,

Right.  Can we set things up so that it's not too painful to inject
custom build options into a CI build?  I should think that at the
very least one needs to be able to vary the configure switches and
CPPFLAGS/CFLAGS.

			regards, tom lane



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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.