Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

What tools and tool versions are you using to build? Is it just GCC for PPC?

There aren't any special build processes to make a fat binary involved?

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 23:11, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > But if you're interested and can explain the tests to run I can try to
> > get the tests running on this machine:
>
> I'm not sure that machine is close enough to prove much, but by all
> means give it a go if you wish. My test setup was explained in [1]:
>
> >> To recap, the test lashup is:
> >> * 2003 PowerMac G4 (1.25GHz PPC 7455, 7200 rpm spinning-rust drive)
> >> * Standard debug build (--enable-debug --enable-cassert)
> >> * Out-of-the-box configuration, except add wal_consistency_checking = all
> >> and configure a wal-streaming standby on the same machine
> >> * Repeatedly run "make installcheck-parallel", but skip the tablespace
> >> test to avoid issues with the standby trying to use the same directory
> >> * Delay long enough after each installcheck-parallel to let the
> >> standby catch up (the run proper is ~24 min, plus 2 min for catchup)
>
> Remember also that the code in question is not in HEAD; you'd
> need to apply Munro's patches, or check out some commit from
> around 2021-04-22.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3502526.1619925367%40sss.pgh.pa.us

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greg