On 2024-08-27 20:14, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 18:00, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
> wrote:
>> As a general thought, seeing that this might be an actual problem
>> should some kind of automated testing be added that checks for
>> performance regressions like this?
>
> We normally try to catch these sorts of things with regression tests.
> Of course, that requires having a test that would catch a particular
> problem, which we don't seem to have for this particular case. A
> performance test would also require testing a particular scenario, so
> I don't see why that's better. A regression test is better suited as
> there's no middle ground between pass and fail.
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I was thinking.
Any idea who normally does those, and if it would be reasonable to add
test(s) for the internal information tables?
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
