Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove prepared transactions from main isolation test schedule. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove prepared transactions from main isolation test schedule.
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Msg-id 5009BDCF.8030603@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove prepared transactions from main isolation test schedule.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 07/20/2012 04:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Remove prepared transactions from main isolation test schedule.
>> There is no point in running this test when prepared transactions are disabled,
>> which is the default. New make targets that include the test are provided. This
>> will save some useless waste of cycles on buildfarm machines.
> Having done that, shouldn't we remove prepared-transactions_1.out (the
> "expected" file for the prepared-transactions-disabled case)?
>
> Having a megabyte-sized test file for that case has always seemed pretty
> wasteful to me.  Now that the test won't be run unless intentionally
> selected, it seems like people who are using it would expect it to
> actually test prepared transactions --- so having it "pass" when they're
> disabled seems wrong.
>
>             



Good point. Will do.

cheers

andrew


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