On 2024-06-02 Su 01:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tristan Partin" <tristan@partin.io> writes:
>> On Fri May 31, 2024 at 12:02 PM CDT, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
>>> We talked this off-list at the conference. It seems we have to somehow
>>> avoid passing pg_regress --schedule argument and instead pass the list of
>>> tests. Any idea how to do that?
>> I think there are 2 solutions to this.
>> 1. Avoid passing --schedule by default, which doesn't sound like a great
>> solution.
>> 2. Teach pg_regress to ignore the --schedule option if specific tests
>> are passed instead.
>> 3. Add a --no-schedule option to pg_regress which would override the
>> previously added --schedule option.
>> I personally prefer 2 or 3.
> Just to refresh peoples' memory of what the Makefiles do:
> src/test/regress/GNUmakefile has
>
> check: all
> $(pg_regress_check) $(REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(srcdir)/parallel_schedule $(MAXCONNOPT) $(EXTRA_TESTS)
>
> check-tests: all | temp-install
> $(pg_regress_check) $(REGRESS_OPTS) $(MAXCONNOPT) $(TESTS) $(EXTRA_TESTS)
>
> (and parallel cases for installcheck etc). AFAICS, meson.build has
> no equivalent to the EXTRA_TESTS add-on, nor does it have behavior
> equivalent to check-tests' substitution of $(TESTS) for --schedule.
> But I suggest that those behaviors have stood for a long time and
> so the appropriate thing to do is duplicate them as best we can,
> not invent something different.
>
>
+1
cheers
andrew
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