Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Extend framework from commit 53be0b1ad to report latch waits.

On 2016-10-12 11:18:57 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 10/4/16 11:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> Apparently, 'make world' does not build worker_spi. I thought 'make
> >> world' was supposed to build everything?
> >
> > You'd have thunk, yeah. It looks like the issue is that src/Makefile
> > is selective about recursing into certain subdirectories of test/,
> > but mostly not test/ itself. src/test/Makefile naively believes it's
> > in charge, though. Probably that logic ought to get shoved down one
> > level, and then adjusted so that src/test/modules gets built by "all".
> > Or else teach top-level "make world" to do "make all" in src/test/,
> > but that seems like it's just doubling down on confusing interconnections.
>
> We generally don't build test code during make world.

FWIW, I find that quite annoying. I want to run make world with parallelism so
I can run make world afterwards with as little unnecessary
unparallelized work. And since the latter takes just about forever, any
errors visible earlier are good.

What are we gaining by this behaviour?

Andres