Re: Add resource intensiveness as a reason to not running tests by default

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-08T09:39:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 7 Sep 2023, at 13:24, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Sep 2023, at 13:09, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> With f47ed79cc8, the test suite doesn't run 'wal_consistency_checking'
>> as default because it is resource intensive; but regress docs doesn't
>> state resource intensiveness as a reason for not running tests by
>> default. So, I created a patch for updating the docs.
> 
> Agreed, the current wording lacks the mention of skipping tests due to high
> resource usage.  Patch looks good from a quick skim, I'll backpatch it down to
> 15 which is where PG_TEST_EXTRA was first used in this capacity.

Pushed and backpatched, thanks!

--
Daniel Gustafsson




Commits

  1. doc: Extend documentation of PG_TEST_EXTRA