Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This particular issue could be implemented just by adding
>> -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS to CFLAGS (or CPPFLAGS if you want to be anal
>> about it). I suppose that no new buildfarm mechanism is required ---
>> someone just needs to set up an animal configured that way, and
>> scheduled to run only maybe once a week or something like that.
> Ah. Ok. That makes sense. How long does such a regression run usually take?
On my x86_64 machine (dual 2.8GHz Xeon EM64T) it's on the order of two
or three hours --- I haven't timed it carefully, but somewhere along
there. That's just for the core regression tests, I've never tried
contrib or PL tests.
It should be a separate animal, and not something that an existing one
does every-so-often, or we might mistake anything it finds for an
irreproducible transient failure. Consistent failures on the same
animal will stand out of the noise, though.
regards, tom lane
