On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2017-03-08 16:32:49 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On 3/6/17 19:53, Andres Freund wrote: >> > I'm just not quite sure what the best way is to make it easier to run >> > tests in parallel within the tree. >> >> make check-world -j2 seems to run fine for me. > > Hm, I at least used to get a lot of spurious failures with this. I > e.g. don't think the free port selection is race free.
pg_regress is running each Postgres instance in a separate Unix socket directory, so the port selection is not problem. PostgresNode.pm is also careful about that. > Also that > doesn't solve the issue of the time spent in repetitive initdbs - but > that's mainly in contrib, and we probably solve that there by having a > special target in contrib/ building a cluster once. Yeah, you can count the growing src/test/modules in that as well. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
