Re: [HACKERS] TAP tests take a long time - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] TAP tests take a long time
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Msg-id f664c957-bc6f-891a-2971-fc09765a704a@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] TAP tests take a long time  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 4/11/17 12:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other thing that might be useful here is to push on parallelizing
> buildfarm runs.  Admittedly that will do nothing for the oldest and
> slowest buildfarm critters, but for reasonably modern hardware the
> serialization of the tests really handicaps you.

Especially the recovery and subscription tests do a lot of waiting for
one of the nodes to catch up.  You get by that by running several of
these tests in parallel, which is well supported now.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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