Re: Initdb-time block size specification - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Christensen
Subject Re: Initdb-time block size specification
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Msg-id CAOxo6XLr97Hx9q3fg1XvRvSVNZ9fh1DDXt7D_aGOF3OLXRje9A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Initdb-time block size specification  (Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 2:52 PM Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com> wrote:
>
> Something I also asked at this years Unconference - Do we currently
> have Build Farm animals testing with different page sizes ?
>
> I'd say that testing all sizes from 4KB up (so 4, 8, 16, 32) should be
> done at least before each release if not continuously.
>
> -- Cheers
>
> Hannu

The regression tests currently have a lot of breakage when running
against non-standard block sizes, so I would assume the answer here is
no.  I would expect that we will want to add regression test variants
or otherwise normalize results so they will work with differing block
sizes, but have not done that yet.



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