Re: Coverage (lcov) failing with inconsistent error in versions 2.x
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Gonzalez V." <jonathan.abdiel@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-07-06T18:00:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-Jul-06, Jacob Champion wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wrote: > > I added -j0 to both so that they run parallel processes, which should be > > a few second faster. > > As a heads up, I found that adding parallelism on my local machine ran > it out of memory pretty quickly, with lcov 2.4. YMMV. Strange! Anyway I noticed that "-j0" doesn't work -- apparently it has to be "-j 0". I'll see how bad the memory usage gets on the next report, and turn that off (or set it lower?) if things are too tight. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Pido que me den el Nobel por razones humanitarias" (Nicanor Parra)