Re: [HACKERS] Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner
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Msg-id 20170308042329.uvgw62gbxyoauizb@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 2017-03-07 20:58:35 +0800, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 7 March 2017 at 20:36, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, +1 on improving matters here.
> 
> +1 also.
> 
> I don't see what's wrong with relying on buildfarm though; testing is
> exactly what its there for.
> 
> If we had a two-stage process, where committers can issue "trial
> commits" as a way of seeing if the build farm likes things. If they
> do, we can push to the main repo.

Personally that's not addressing my main concern, which is that the
latency of getting done with some patch/topic takes a long while. If I
have to wait for the buildfarm to check some preliminary patch, I still
have to afterwards work on pushing it to master.  And very likely my
local check would finish a lot faster than a bunch of buildfarm animals
- I have after all a plenty powerfull machine, lots of cores, fast ssd,
lots of memory, ...

So I really want faster end-to-end test, not less cpu time spent on my
own machine.

- Andres



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