[Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>]

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> There's one caveat, though - for regular builds the slowdown is pretty
> much eliminated. But with valgrind it's still considerably slower. For
> postgres_fdw the "make check" used to take ~5 minutes for me, now it
> takes >1h. And yes, this is entirely due to the new test case which is
> generating / inserting 70k rows. So maybe the test case is not worth it
> after all, and we should get rid of it.

I bet the CLOBBER_CACHE animals won't like it much either.

I suggest what we do is leave it in place for long enough to get
a round of reports from those slow animals, and then (assuming
those reports are positive) drop the test.

			regards, tom lane