On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:16:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
>> Does anybody else have any idea on how can we write a test for
>> non-default block size or if we already have anything similar?
>
> Build with a non-default BLCKSZ and see if the regression tests pass.
> There's no way that a build with BLCKSZ x can run any tests for
> BLCKSZ y.
Or we could implement block-level configuration at initdb time? That's
what Andres has done for WAL segment size recently.
/me hides and runs fast
> Note that you can expect some plan variations from a different BLCKSZ,
> so there'd be at least a few "failures" in the regression tests, which'd
> require manual inspection. Otherwise this could be delegated to a
> buildfarm animal using a nonstandard BLCKSZ.
Last time I did that I saw only plan diffs, which was a couple of weeks
ago.
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Michael