Re: improving speed of make check-world

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 8/31/14 5:36 AM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> Running "make -j2 check-world" does not work because "initdb" is not
>> found by "pg_regress". but "make -j1 check-world" does work fine. It
>> seems that some dependencies might be missing and there is a race
>> condition between temporary install and running some checks?? Maybe it
>> is not expected to work anyway? See below suggestions to make it work.

> Here is an updated patch that fixes this problem.

Doesn't the Windows side of the house still depend on that functionality
you removed from pg_regress?  Perhaps that's not a big deal to fix, but
it seems like a commit-blocker from here.
        regards, tom lane