Re: pg_regress: schedule multi-line test groups

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 08:57:51AM +0100, Alexandre Felipe wrote:
> > This was motivated by two rebases on the SLOPE patch [1] this week due to
> > changes in parallel_schedule. Also I find much easier to parse the list
> > using this syntax, if we stick with one test per line we get the benefit
> of
> > counting tests by looking at the line numbers.
> >
> > I used a `goto` to keep the number of touched lines small, and facilitate
> > your review.

I'd +1 something like that in the schedule files, even if we only
> limit the number of tests per line to be up to 20.
>

Actually, I think we should support arbitrary size test groups and run them
on a pool
from a queue that would possibly make the regression faster as today we
always
wait for the slowest test in each group.

> +test:
> + boolean
> + char
> + name
>
> At least, let's make the whitespace vs tab policy consistent. ;)
>

I will blame the editor, I hit tab and it adds spaces :) I started manually
but then I saw that
what I was doing was dumb and error prone, and did the rest with find and
replace (with \t)
now all using spaces.

Regards,
Alexandre