Re: Running tests under valgrind is getting slower at an alarming pace

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Running tests under valgrind is getting slower at an alarming pace
Date: 2021-10-06 17:10:29
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ_8jSD3-SmWG1HYKvHox-K_58+=fWzaKETjuJB6-qTbQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 12:47 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> There's probably some of that.
>
> The fact that the tap test infrastructure does all communication with the
> server via psql each only execute only a single query is a problem -
> connection startup is expensive.

Ageed. safe_psql() is a poor-quality interface. I've been surprised in
the past that we were relying on something so primitive.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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