On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2018-06-17 22:31:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah, for me parallelized check-world only works in >= 9.6. My (vague) >> recollection is that multiple fixes were needed to get to that point, >> so I doubt it's worth trying to fix in older branches. > > There were multiple fixes, that's right - I'd personally however still > be in favor of trying to backpatch those.
It took me some time, but I have been able to find the thread which discusses all the fixes needed to get parallel builds to work on older branches without having to port PostgresNode.pm, which is a way higher level of efforts: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQTGveO3_zvnXQAs32cMosX8c76_ewe4L1cNL=1xzm...@mail.gmail.com Could that be considered? > Running a check world serially for the backbranches seriously slows > down things for me. Me too. That was already frustrating one year ago, and it still is. -- Michael
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