Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix inadequacies in recently added wait events

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:56:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> >>> As for whether hypothetical check scripts would ever be run, I
> >>> was thinking we should stick them under some make target that
> >>> developers run all the time anyway -- perhaps "check".
> >>> Shouldn't we catch simple mechanically detectable problems as
> >>> early in the pipeline as possible?
>
> >> Adding overhead to every developer's every test cycle doesn't
> >> sound like a win.
>
> > If it takes 100ms, nobody's gonna notice.
>
> I doubt running a perl script that analyzes the entire backend
> source code is gonna take 100ms.

What would be a reasonable maximum amount of time for such a check to take?

Best,
David.
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