On 10/30/2014 05:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Yup, you read that right, it took 32 seconds to run those dozen utterly
>> trivial tests. As far as I could tell by eyeball, pretty much all of the
>> time went into test 11, which is odd since it seems not significantly
>> different from the others. I think there's something wacky about IPC::Run
>> on this platform.
> Oh, never mind: after digging into the test source I eventually realized
> that there's an initdb happening between tests 10 and 11, and that's
> what's eating the time. It might be a thought to print something to
> indicate that a time-consuming step is happening; but the lack of any
> feedback here isn't exactly IPC::Run's fault.
>
> Anyway, I can confirm Peter's statement that the current tests work even
> on quite old platforms, as long as you install IPC::Run.
>
>
So, I'm a bit confused. Is the --enable-tap-tests config setting still
on the table?
cheers
andrew
