Re: building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: J=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=rg Beyer <Beyerj(at)students(dot)uni-marburg(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space
Date: 2007-11-03 17:27:22
Message-ID: 11973.1194110842@sss.pgh.pa.us
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J=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=rg Beyer <Beyerj(at)students(dot)uni-marburg(dot)de> writes:
> I generally run make check, and that consumes some extra disk space, of
> course. While versions 8.1 and 8.2 were quite happy with a total of
> approximately 280-300 MB of free disk space for the build, 8.3 beta 2
> consumes *up to 1.6 Gigabyte*.

There is something very wrong with that --- the regression DB has grown
but not by that much. Where do you see the space going, exactly?

regards, tom lane

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