Re: Adding CI to our tree

Hi,

On 2022-01-17 14:30:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I think it's not actually that hard, with something like I described in the
> > email upthread, with each tests going into a prescribed location, and the
> > on-disk status being inspectable in an automated way. check-world could invoke
> > a command to summarize the tests at the end in a .NOTPARALLEL, to make the
> > local case easier.
>
> That sounds a bit, um, make-centric. At this point it seems to me
> we ought to be thinking about how it'd work under meson.

Some of this is a lot easier with meson. It has a builtin test runner, which
understands tap (thereby not requiring prove anymore). Those tests can be
listed (meson test --list).

Depending on the option this results in a list of all tests with just the
"topline" name of passing tests and error output from failing tests, or all
output all the time or ... At the end it prints a summary of test counts and a
list of failed tests.

Here's an example (the leading timestamps are from CI, not meson), on windows:
https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/6009638771490816/logs/check.log

The test naming isn't necessarily great, but that's my fault.

Running all the tests with meson takes a good bit less time than running most,
but far from all, tests using vcregress.pl:
https://cirrus-ci.com/build/4611852939296768

meson test makes it far easier to spot which tests failed, it's consistent
across operating systems, allows to skip individual tests, etc.

However: It doesn't address the log collection issue in itself. For that we'd
still need to collect them in a way that's easier to associate with individual
tests.

In the meson branch I made it so that each test (including individual tap
ones) has it's own log directory, which makes it easier to select all the logs
for a failing test etc.

> > This subthread is about the windows tests specifically, where it's even worse
> > - there's no way to run all tests.
>
> That's precisely because the windows build doesn't use make.
> We shouldn't be thinking about inventing two separate dead-end
> solutions to this problem.

Agreed. I think some improvements, e.g. around making the logs easier to
associate with an individual test, is orthogonal to the buildsystem issue.

I think it might still be worth adding stopgap way of running all tap tests on
windows though. Having a vcregress.pl function to find all directories with t/
and run the tests there, shouldn't be a lot of code...

Greetings,

Andres Freund