numeric_big has been left out of parallel_schedule, requiring EXTRA_TESTS to
run it, since going in back in 1999 (AFAICT it was even the reason EXTRA_TESTS
was invented). The original commit states that it's huge, and it probably was.
Today it runs faster than many tests we have in parallel_schedule, even on slow
hardware like my ~5 year old laptop. Repeated runs in CI at various parallel
groups place it at 50% the runtime of triggers.sql and 25% of brin.sql.
To make sure it's executed and not silently breaks, is it time to add this to
the regular make check?
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Daniel Gustafsson