Re: Adding "large" to PG_TEST_EXTRA

Greetings,

* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> I'm working on rebasing [1], my patch to make relation extension scale
> better.
>
> As part of that I'd like to add tests for relation extension. To be able to
> test the bulk write strategy path, we need to have a few backends concurrently
> load > 16MB files.
>
> It seems pretty clear that doing that on all buildfarm machines wouldn't be
> nice / welcome. And it also seems likely that this won't be the last case
> where that'd be useful.
>
> So I'd like to add a 'large' class to PG_TEST_EXTRA, that we can use in tests
> that we only want to execute on machines with sufficient resources.
>
> Makes sense?

+1 in general.  Are there existing tests that we should add into that
set that you're thinking of..?  I've been working with the Kerberos
tests and that's definitely one that seems to fit this description...

Thanks,

Stephen