On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 07/21/2016 02:26 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>Confirmed here. Will deal with it, but I wonder why we have no buildfarm
> >>members covering this ...
> >We're not going to have a build farm member for every locale the local
> >systems support.
> >
> >Perhaps the build farm script should pick a random locale for each
> >run. Either a random locale from the set on the OS or a random
> >language from a list of locale that the regression tests are intended
> >to be safe for.
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> I don't see why we shouldn't have a buildfarm machine that tests a very
> large number of locales. It takes a very lightly resourced machine like
> nightjar just over two minutes per locale. The list of locales to test is a
> setting in the config file.
+1. Ten animals of ~75 locales apiece would give fair per-animal runtime.