Re: reducing isolation tests runtime

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Here's a concrete proposal. Runtime is 45.7 seconds on my laptop. It
> > can be further reduced, but not by more than a second or two unless you
> > get in the business of modifying other tests. (I only modified
> > deadlock-soft-2 because it saves 5 seconds).
>
> Looks reasonable to me, but do we want to set any particular convention
> about the max number of tests to run in parallel? If so there should
> be at least a comment saying what.

Hmm, I ran this in a limited number of connections and found that it
fails with less than 27; and there's no MAX_CONNECTIONS like there is
for pg_regress. So I'll put this back on the drawing board until I'm
back from vacations ...

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