Re: TAP tests take a long time

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-04-11T19:52:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> The other thing that might be useful here is to push on parallelizing
>> buildfarm runs.

> One reason I haven't supported "make -j nn" everywhere (it is supported
> for making core, contrib and test_modules) is that the output tends to
> get rather jumbled, and I didn't want to impose that extra burden in
> people trying to decipher the results.

Agreed, that would be a mess.  I was thinking in terms of running steps in
parallel if they have independent output log files, so that that problem
wouldn't arise.  AFAIK, for example, we could run the per-subdirectory
"make check" tests in src/bin/ in parallel without incurring any
legibility issues.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Speed up hash_index regression test.