Hi Andres,
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:48:02PM +0000, Andres Freund wrote:
> tests: Consistently use pg_basebackup -cfast --no-sync to accelerate tests.
>
> Most tests invoking pg_basebackup themselves did not yet use -cfast, which
> makes pg_basebackup take considerably longer. The only reason this didn't
> cause the tests to take many minutes is that spread checkpoints only throttle
> when writing out a buffer and there aren't that many dirty buffers in the
> tests...
Are you planning to back-patch any of this? It seems to me that it
would not hurt, and making the tests faster on back-branches saves
time when working on those branches.
Thanks,
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Michael