Re: Adding "large" to PG_TEST_EXTRA - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Adding "large" to PG_TEST_EXTRA
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Msg-id 20230213191039.aslyxlpc6q7npxel@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Adding "large" to PG_TEST_EXTRA  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

On 2023-02-13 13:54:59 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bikeshedding a bit ... is "large" the right name?  It's not awful but
> I wonder if there is a better one

I did wonder about that too. But didn't come up with something more poignant.


> it seems like this class could eventually include tests that run a long time
> but don't necessarily eat disk space.  "resource-intensive" is too long.

I'm not sure we'd want to combine time-intensive and disk-space-intensive test
in the same category. Availability of disk space and cpu cycles don't have to
correlate that well.

lotsadisk, lotsacpu? :)

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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