Re: Grouping isolationtester tests in the schedule

On 2019-Aug-07, Tom Lane wrote:

> Something related I've been wondering about is whether we could
> parallelize the isolation tests.  A difficulty here is that the
> slowest ones tend to also be timing-sensitive, such that running
> them in parallel would increase the risk of failure.  But we
> could likely get at least some improvement.

Yeah, there's some improvement to be had there.  We've discussed it
previously:
https://postgr.es/m/20180124231006.z7spaz5gkzbdvob5@alvherre.pgsql

I'm not really happy about this grouping if we mean we're restricted in
how we can make tests run in parallel.

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