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Re: reduce size of logs stored by buildfarm

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> — 2025-11-25T17:15:20Z

On 2025-11-25 Tu 10:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> writes:
>> With these three patches, we go from having 62 MB bytes in files with
>> "log" in their names under testrun/ (except those that have "catalog")
>> to 30 MB.  I think that's not a bad reduction.
> I wonder how much this overlaps with what Andrew just did
> to the BF client [1].
>
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/601bb91d-b55d-4fa6-bb57-c2126fb22620%40dunslane.net
>
>

Pretty much none of it, although both Alvaro and I are clearly motivated 
by the same thing, namely disk space pressure on the buildfarm server.

I think his patches 1 and 3 seem like no-brainers.

I did two things in the BF client:

. prevent uploading redundant copies of the same file in meson builds 
(this was a bug)

. inhibit loading postmaster log files from installcheck runs and 
cross-version upgrade runs, but only if there hasn't been a failure.


cheers


andrew


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