Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2019-04-10 18:35:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... What I did instead was to shove
>> that test case and some related ones into a new plpgsql test file,
>> src/pl/plpgsql/src/sql/plpgsql_trap.sql, so that it's not part of the
>> core regression tests at all. (We've talked before about moving
>> chunks of plpgsql.sql into the plpgsql module, so this is sort of a
>> down payment on that.) Now, if you think about the time to do
>> check-world rather than just the core regression tests, this isn't
>> obviously a win, and in fact it might be a loss because the plpgsql
>> tests run serially not in parallel with anything else.
> Hm, can't we "just" parallelize the plpgsql schedule instead?
If somebody wants to work on that, I won't stand in the way, but
it seems like material for a different patch.
>> Thoughts? Anyone object to making these sorts of changes
>> post-feature-freeze?
> Hm. There's some advantage to doing so, because it won't break any large
> pending changes. But it's also possible that it'll destabilize the
> buildfarm some. In personal capacity I'm like +0.5.
My thought was that there is (hopefully) going to be a lot of testing
going on over the next few months, so making that faster would be
a useful activity.
regards, tom lane
