On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:51 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I do not think the answer to this is to nag the respective animal > owners to raise PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT. IMV this test is simply > not worth the cycles it takes, at least not for these machines.
Can't we just move it to PG_TEST_EXTRA? Alongside the existing "xid_wraparound" test? We didn't even have basic coverage of multi-pass VACUUMs before now. This new test added that coverage. I think that it will pull its weight. There will always be a small number of extremely slow buildfarm animals. Optimizing for things like Raspberry pi animals with SD cards just doesn't seem like a good use of developer time. I really care about keeping the tests fast, but only on platforms that hackers actually use for their development work. -- Peter Geoghegan
