Re: pg_upgrade test chatter

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade test chatter
Date: 2021-10-20 02:37:28
Message-ID: 202110200237.56htdi2lu6s7@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Oct-19, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah, my original thought had been to hack this at the test level.
> However, I felt like it'd be worth adding this code because we could
> apply it elsewhere in pg_regress.c to save several psql sessions
> (and hence backend starts) per regression DB creation. That's not a
> huge win, but it'd add up.

Ah, yeah, that sounds like it can be significant under valgrind and
such, so +1.

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