On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 3:26 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > 6) Disable write cache flushes on windows > > > > It's a bit ugly to do this without using the UI... Shaves off about 30s > > from the tests. > > A brief comment would be nice: "We don't care about persistence over hard > crashes in the CI, so disable write cache flushes to speed it up."
Turns out that patch doesn't work on its own anyway, at least not reliably... I tested it by interactively logging into a windows vm and testing it there. It doesn't actually seem to suffice when run in isolation, because the relevant registry key doesn't yet exist. I haven't yet figured out the magic incantations for adding the missing "intermediary", but I'm getting there...
You can find a good example on how to accomplish this in:
