Re: New regression test time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robins Tharakan <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: New regression test time
Date: 2013-06-28 21:31:06
Message-ID: 20130628213106.GH11516@alap2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-06-28 14:01:23 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Per discussion on these tests, I ran "make check" against 9.4 head,
> applied all of the regression tests other than DISCARD.
>
> Time for 3 "make check" runs without new tests: 65.9s
>
> Time for 3 "make check runs with new tests: 71.7s
>
> So that's an increase of about 10% in test runtime (or 2 seconds per run
> on my laptop), in order to greatly improve regression test coverage.

How did you evaluate that coverage increased "greatly"? I am not
generally against these tests but I'd be surprised if the overall test
coverage improved noticeably by this. Which makes 10% runtime overhead
pretty hefty if the goal is to actually achieve a high coverage.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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