Re: patch: ensure testdbencoding test table is dropped

Kris Jurka wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Oliver Jowett wrote:
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>>Minor patch to make sure the testdbencoding test table is dropped
>>(otherwise it interferes with the table metadata test in subsequent runs).
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> The only comment on messing with autocommit at all is "Go faster".  Other
> tests avoid using transactions unless needed, what kind of speed up are we
> looking at here?  1 second? 10?  It might just be easier to not mess with
> autocommit at all.

It does ~1800 INSERTs -- that's going to take a while with autocommit
on. Turning autocommit on for that one test adds ~15 seconds to the
testsuite run on my machine against 7.4. I think 7.3 will be worse.

-O