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Re: TAP tests take a long time

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-04-11T18:08:49Z
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On 4/11/17 12:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other thing that might be useful here is to push on parallelizing
> buildfarm runs.  Admittedly that will do nothing for the oldest and
> slowest buildfarm critters, but for reasonably modern hardware the
> serialization of the tests really handicaps you.

Especially the recovery and subscription tests do a lot of waiting for
one of the nodes to catch up.  You get by that by running several of
these tests in parallel, which is well supported now.

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