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* [PATCH v2 4/4] xml2: Avoid libxml leaks in pgxml_xpath() error paths
@ 2026-06-01 22:41  Andrey Chernyy <andrey.cherny@tantorlabs.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andrey Chernyy @ 2026-06-01 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

pgxml_xpath() builds an xpath_workspace before returning it to
callers.  If an ERROR is thrown before the function returns, callers
have not received the workspace pointer yet and cannot run
cleanup_workspace().

Add local error cleanup for the partially built workspace and the
compiled XPath expression.  Also check xmlXPathNewContext() before
dereferencing the returned context.
---
 contrib/xml2/xpath.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/xml2/xpath.c b/contrib/xml2/xpath.c
index 9fe75cb5ff4..283bb51178d 100644
--- a/contrib/xml2/xpath.c
+++ b/contrib/xml2/xpath.c
@@ -497,36 +497,49 @@ static xpath_workspace *
 pgxml_xpath(text *document, xmlChar *xpath, PgXmlErrorContext *xmlerrcxt)
 {
 	int32		docsize = VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(document);
-	xmlXPathCompExprPtr comppath;
+	xmlXPathCompExprPtr volatile comppath = NULL;
 	xpath_workspace *workspace = palloc0_object(xpath_workspace);
 
 	workspace->doctree = NULL;
 	workspace->ctxt = NULL;
 	workspace->res = NULL;
 
-	workspace->doctree = xmlReadMemory((char *) VARDATA_ANY(document),
-									   docsize, NULL, NULL,
-									   XML_PARSE_NOENT);
-	if (workspace->doctree != NULL)
+	PG_TRY();
 	{
-		workspace->ctxt = xmlXPathNewContext(workspace->doctree);
-		workspace->ctxt->node = xmlDocGetRootElement(workspace->doctree);
-
-		/* compile the path */
-		comppath = xmlXPathCtxtCompile(workspace->ctxt, xpath);
-		if (comppath == NULL || pg_xml_error_occurred(xmlerrcxt))
+		workspace->doctree = xmlReadMemory((char *) VARDATA_ANY(document),
+										   docsize, NULL, NULL,
+										   XML_PARSE_NOENT);
+		if (workspace->doctree != NULL)
 		{
-			if (comppath != NULL)
-				xmlXPathFreeCompExpr(comppath);
-			xml_ereport(xmlerrcxt, ERROR, ERRCODE_INVALID_ARGUMENT_FOR_XQUERY,
-						"XPath Syntax Error");
-		}
+			workspace->ctxt = xmlXPathNewContext(workspace->doctree);
+			if (workspace->ctxt == NULL)
+				xml_ereport(xmlerrcxt, ERROR, ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY,
+							"could not allocate XPath context");
 
-		/* Now evaluate the path expression. */
-		workspace->res = xmlXPathCompiledEval(comppath, workspace->ctxt);
+			workspace->ctxt->node = xmlDocGetRootElement(workspace->doctree);
+
+			/* compile the path */
+			comppath = xmlXPathCtxtCompile(workspace->ctxt, xpath);
+			if (comppath == NULL || pg_xml_error_occurred(xmlerrcxt))
+				xml_ereport(xmlerrcxt, ERROR, ERRCODE_INVALID_ARGUMENT_FOR_XQUERY,
+							"XPath Syntax Error");
+
+			/* Now evaluate the path expression. */
+			workspace->res = xmlXPathCompiledEval(comppath, workspace->ctxt);
+
+			xmlXPathFreeCompExpr(comppath);
+			comppath = NULL;
+		}
+	}
+	PG_CATCH();
+	{
+		if (comppath != NULL)
+			xmlXPathFreeCompExpr(comppath);
+		cleanup_workspace(workspace);
 
-		xmlXPathFreeCompExpr(comppath);
+		PG_RE_THROW();
 	}
+	PG_END_TRY();
 
 	return workspace;
 }
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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