Hi all, On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:34:46 -0400 > From: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: pgsql.hackers > Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was > continuing to access the > > > > Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Tom Lane wrote: > >> > >>> This particular issue could be implemented just by adding > >>> -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS to CFLAGS (or CPPFLAGS if you want to be anal > >>> about it). I suppose that no new buildfarm mechanism is required --- > >>> someone just needs to set up an animal configured that way, and > >>> scheduled to run only maybe once a week or something like that. > >>> > > > > > >> Ah. Ok. That makes sense. How long does such a regression run usually take? > >> > > > > On my x86_64 machine (dual 2.8GHz Xeon EM64T) it's on the order of two > > or three hours --- I haven't timed it carefully, but somewhere along > > there. That's just for the core regression tests, I've never tried > > contrib or PL tests. > > > > It should be a separate animal, and not something that an existing one > > does every-so-often, or we might mistake anything it finds for an > > irreproducible transient failure. Consistent failures on the same > > animal will stand out of the noise, though. > > > > > > > > > I tried this on a little P3 I have lying around: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bf]$ ./run_build.pl --test --conf=figeater.conf > Mon Aug 27 17:03:55 2007: buildfarm run for figeater:HEAD starting > [17:03:55] checking out source ... > [17:04:17] checking if build run needed ... > [17:04:18] creating vpath build dir pgsql.11834 ... > [17:04:18] running configure ... > [17:06:06] running make ... > [17:31:14] running make check ... > [00:43:28] running make contrib ... > Branch: HEAD > Stage Contrib failed with status 2 > > > Good thing it failed - goodness only knows how long the extra runs would > have taken :-) > > Does someone have a box with lots of grunt that can spare some cycles > for a few hours once a week or so? I've just configure centaur (CentOS 5) like this. Do you need it for every version (8.1, 8.2) or just HEAD Do you need it just once a week or every run? I can also configure wharthog (unixware) like this if you need... > > cheers > > andrew > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > >
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