On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > On the subject of test total time, we could paralelize isolation tests. > Right now "make check" in src/test/isolation takes 1:16 on my machine. > Test "timeouts" takes full 40s of that, with nothing running in parallel > -- the machine is completely idle. > > Seems like we can have a lot of time back just by changing the schedule > to use multiple tests per line (in particular, put the other slow tests > together with timeouts), per the attached; with this new schedule, > isolation takes 44 seconds in my machine -- a win of 32 seconds. We can > win a couple of additional second by grouping a few other lines, but > this is the biggest win. > > (This needs to be adjusted because some table names in the specs > conflict.)
Oh, cool. Yes, the time the isolation tests take to run is quite annoying. I didn't realize it would be so easy to run it in parallel. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company