Re: Adding NetBSD and OpenBSD to Postgres CI

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 at 17:49, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I finally pushed this. The meson fix backpatched to 16.
>
> I did some very minor polishing, reordering the OS lists to stay alphabetical,
> instead of adding netbsd/openbsd somewhere to the front of lists.

Thanks!

> Obviously not your fault, but I do think it's pretty crazy that with the same
> available resources, netbsd and openbsd take considerably longer than linux
> and freebsd, which both do a lot more (linux tests 32 and 64 bit with ubsan
> with autoconf and asan with meson, freebsd tests a bunch of debugging
> options). I wonder what is going wrong. I suspect we might be waiting for
> the filesystem a lot, according to cirrus-ci's CPU usage graph we're not CPU
> bound during the test phase. Or maybe they just scale badly.

Yes, I could not find the reason why either.

> Any chance you're interested in rebasing and expanding
> https://postgr.es/m/20240413021221.hg53rvqlvldqh57i%40awork3.anarazel.de
>
> It'd be nice if we could enable these tasks on cfbot, where we bring our own
> compute, while leaving them on manual for everyone else.

Sure, I will work on this. Thank you for mentioning it.

--
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft