Re: Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need a builtin way to run all tests faster manner
Date: 2017-03-08 17:54:21
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYHgLj3WMw=sGviXxKRHovjv70Twf5YOFXz3hJRw6i+8Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Personally that's not addressing my main concern, which is that the
> latency of getting done with some patch/topic takes a long while. If I
> have to wait for the buildfarm to check some preliminary patch, I still
> have to afterwards work on pushing it to master. And very likely my
> local check would finish a lot faster than a bunch of buildfarm animals
> - I have after all a plenty powerfull machine, lots of cores, fast ssd,
> lots of memory, ...
>
> So I really want faster end-to-end test, not less cpu time spent on my
> own machine.

Yeah. I think the buildfarm-for-test-commits or maybe
buildfarm-for-approved-branches-belonging-to-people-we-basically-trust
idea isn't a bad one, but it's not a substitute for $SUBJECT.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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