On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com>wrote:
> > Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of vie jul 13 16:05:37 -0400 2012: > > Why does the isolation check take such a long time? On some of my slower > > buildfarm members I am thinking of disabling it because it takes so > > long. This single test typically takes longer than a full serial > > standard regression test. Is there any way we could make it faster? > > I think the "prepared transactions" test is the one that takes the > longest. Which is a shame when prepared xacts are not enabled, because > all it does is throw millions of "prepared transactions are not enabled" > errors. There is one other test that takes very long because it commits > a large amount of transactions. I found it to be much faster if run > with fsync disabled. > > Maybe it'd be a good idea to disable fsync on buildfarm runs, if we > don't already do so? > I'm looking into that. But given that the default is to set max_prepared_transactions to 0, shouldn't we just remove that test from the normal installcheck schedule? We could provide an alternative schedule that does include it. cheers andrew