Re: TAP tests take a long time

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TAP tests take a long time
Date: 2017-04-11 18:08:49
Message-ID: f664c957-bc6f-891a-2971-fc09765a704a@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/11/17 12:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other thing that might be useful here is to push on parallelizing
> buildfarm runs. Admittedly that will do nothing for the oldest and
> slowest buildfarm critters, but for reasonably modern hardware the
> serialization of the tests really handicaps you.

Especially the recovery and subscription tests do a lot of waiting for
one of the nodes to catch up. You get by that by running several of
these tests in parallel, which is well supported now.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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