Re: pg_background contrib module proposal

From: Andrew Borodin <borodin(at)octonica(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_background contrib module proposal
Date: 2016-12-21 18:03:41
Message-ID: CAJEAwVFMYZcHQYDZHwR4QKdYvV9mmij=24L4gtc46AGZ0HV9rA@mail.gmail.com
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2016-12-21 20:42 GMT+05:00 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> This whole subthread seems like a distraction to me. I find it hard
> to believe that this test case would be stable enough to survive the
> buildfarm where, don't forget, we have things like
> CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS machines where queries take 100x longer to run.
> But even if it is, surely we can pick a less contrived test case. So
> why worry about this?

David Fetter's test is deterministic and shall pass no matter how slow
and unpredictable perfromance is on a server.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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