Re: BF client script runs src/test/modules TAP tests multiple times

On 2026-04-08 We 1:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I spent some more time poking into why my buildfarm animals seemed
> to have gotten markedly slower in the past month or so. One
> particular inflection point was the introduction of test_plan_advice.
> We knew that would be expensive, since it invokes an extra run of
> the core regression tests. On my animal indri, which can do
> install-check-C in about 10 or 11 seconds, you'd have expected that
> to add ten-ish seconds to the total cycle time. But it added more
> than 30 seconds. Investigation shows that what you'd guess from
> simple arithmetic is the truth: the BF client script is invoking
> that test *three times*. Once from make_misc_check, once from
> make_testmodules_install_check with locale "C", and once from
> make_testmodules_install_check with locale "en_US.utf8", since
> that animal is set up with
> locales => [ 'C', 'en_US.UTF-8' ],
>
> I do not think we need this. We should apply the same policy to
> src/test/modules as we do to contrib, namely that TAP tests are
> run just once during the "make check" phase, not during the "make
> installcheck" phases. I've applied the attached to my animals
> and it makes for a significant drop in cycle time.
>
> (I've not looked into whether the meson side has a similar issue.)
>
>

Ok, I will try to rationalize this.

cheers

andrew

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