Re: Grouping isolationtester tests in the schedule

On 07/08/2019 14:42, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 11:28 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> The list of tests in src/test/isolation/isolation_schedule has grown
>> over the years. Originally, they were all related to Serializable
>> Snapshot Isolation, but there are different kinds of concurrency tests
>> there now. More tests is good, but the schedule file has grown into a
>> big inscrutable list with zero comments.
>
> +1
>
>> I propose to categorize the tests and add some divider comments to the
>> file, see attached.
>
> I think I'd put nowait and skip locked under a separate category "FOR
> UPDATE" or "row locking" or something, but maybe that's just me... can
> you call that stuff DML?

Yeah, I guess SELECT FOR UPDATE isn't really DML. Separate "Row locking"
category works for me. Or maybe "Concurrent DML and row locking". There
is also DML in some of those tests.

- Heikki