Re: [buildfarm-members] BuildFarm client release 4.19

On 04/19/2017 01:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I have released version 4.19 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. It can
>> be downloaded from
>> <https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_19.tgz>
> Nice work!
>

Thank you.

>> * Improvements to TAP tests logging and coverage. Each test set (i.e
>> each /t directory) is now logged separately. Coverage is extended to
>> remaining test sets in src/test except SSL tests.
> I was going to plead with buildfarm owners who use --enable-tap-tests to
> update sooner rather than later, because this separate-logging behavior
> is going to make it a lot less painful to decipher failures during the
> TAP tests. However, in view of my results in
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/21358.1492622881%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> I can't really recommend that owners of slower machines update just yet.
> Hopefully we can do something to trim down the added runtime.

As I mentioned in reply to that thread, you can disable the extra TAP
tests with this addition to the command line:

--skip-steps=misc-check

>
>> These changes mean that the client is more useful for testing
>> development code, and also that testing config settings is much simpler.
>> An initial test run on a fresh installation is now as simple as:
>> ...
>> To test development code, the from-source option is now much more
>> flexible and friendly. For example, one might do something like:
> These things are pretty cool, but maybe they need to be documented at
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Buildfarm_Howto
> ?
>
>

Indeed. I am planning to.

cheers

andrew

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