Re: Reducing the cycle time for CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS buildfarm members

On 6/22/21 5:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 6/20/21 6:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (3) Since this only works in v14 and up, older branches would
>>> have to fall back to -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. Perhaps we could
>>> improve the buildfarm client script so that buildfarm owners
>>> just configure "clobber_cache_testing => 1" and then the script
>>> would do the right branch-dependent thing.
>> Maybe. Let's see what you come up with.
> Here's a couple of draft-quality patches --- one for initdb, one
> for the buildfarm --- to implement this idea. These are just
> lightly tested; in particular I've not had the patience to run
> full BF cycles to see how much is actually saved.
>
>

Looks OK for the buildfarm patch. I wonder if we just want to run initdb
once with --clobber-cache instead of once per locale?

cheers

andrew

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