Re: [HACKERS] regression bigtest needs very long time

> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Just don't run bigtest.  It is only for people who are having trouble
> > with the new numeric type.
> 
> I don't mind too much that bigtest takes forever --- as you say,
> it shouldn't be run except by people who want a thorough test.
> 
> But I *am* unhappy that the regular numeric test takes much longer than
> all the other regression tests put together.  That's an unreasonable
> amount of effort spent on one feature, and it gets really annoying for
> someone like me who's in the habit of running the regress tests after
> any update.  Is there anything this test is likely to catch that
> wouldn't get caught with a much narrower field width (say 10 digits
> instead of 30)?

Oh, I didn't realize this.  We certainly should think about reducing the
time spent on it, though it is kind of lame to be testing numeric in a
precision that is less than the standard int4 type.

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