On 04/18/2017 08:59 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: >> Lets's say we have a bunch of possible environment settings with names >> that all begin with "PG_TAP_" PostgresNode.pm could check for the >> existence of these and take action accordingly, and you could set them >> on a buildfarm animal in the config file, or for interactive use in your >> .profile. > That's the point I am trying to make upthread: slow buildfarm animals > should have minimal impact on core code modifications. We could for > example have one environment variable that lists all the parameters to > modify in a single string and appends them at the end of > postgresql.conf. But honestly I don't think that this is necessary if > there is only one variable able to define a base directory for > temporary statistics as the real bottleneck comes from there at least > in the case of hamster. When initializing a node via PostgresNode.pm, > we would just check for this variable, and the init() routine just > creates a temporary folder in it, setting up temp_stats_path in > postgresql.conf.
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How is that going to deal with your wal_*_timeout etc settings? cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
