Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > 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. I see that this approach would result in manual check-world runs not running such tests by default either, which sounds right. Bikeshedding a bit ... is "large" the right name? It's not awful but I wonder if there is a better one; it seems like this class could eventually include tests that run a long time but don't necessarily eat disk space. "resource-intensive" is too long. regards, tom lane