Re: Recording test runtimes with the buildfarm

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 6/11/20 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I don't see why we can't scrape this data from the existing
>> buildfarm output, at least for the core regression tests.  New
>> infrastructure could make it easier/cheaper, but I don't think we
>> should invest in that until we've got a provably useful tool.

> OK, that makes my life fairly easy. Are you wanting this to be
> automated, or just left as an exercise for researchers for now?

I'm envisioning the latter --- I think somebody should prove that
useful results can be obtained before we spend any effort on making it
easier to gather the input numbers.  Mind you, I'm not saying that
I don't believe it's possible to get good results.  But building
infrastructure in advance of a solid use-case is a recipe for
building the wrong thing.

            regards, tom lane