Hi, On 2018-06-17 22:31:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > > Trying to run regression tests in parallel in ~9.5 leads to spurious > > failures, which is annoying... I had a patch fixing that but I cannot > > put my finger on the thread where this has been discussed. > > Yeah, for me parallelized check-world only works in >= 9.6. My (vague) > recollection is that multiple fixes were needed to get to that point, > so I doubt it's worth trying to fix in older branches.
There were multiple fixes, that's right - I'd personally however still be in favor of trying to backpatch those. Running a check world serially for the backbranches seriously slows down things for me. Greetings, Andres Freund