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* [PATCH v4 5/7] Row pattern recognition patch (docs).
@ 2023-08-09 07:56 Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Tatsuo Ishii @ 2023-08-09 07:56 UTC (permalink / raw)

---
 doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml   | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml       | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
index 755c9f1485..eda3612822 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
@@ -537,6 +537,58 @@ WHERE pos &lt; 3;
     <literal>rank</literal> less than 3.
    </para>
 
+   <para>
+    Row pattern common syntax can be used with row pattern common syntax to
+    perform row pattern recognition in a query. Row pattern common syntax
+    includes two sub clauses. <literal>DEFINE</literal> defines definition
+    variables along with an expression. The expression must be a logical
+    expression, which means it must
+    return <literal>TRUE</literal>, <literal>FALSE</literal>
+    or <literal>NULL</literal>. Moreover if the expression comprises a column
+    reference, it must be the argument of <function>rpr</function>. An example
+    of <literal>DEFINE</literal> is as follows.
+
+<programlisting>
+DEFINE
+ LOWPRICE AS price &lt;= 100,
+ UP AS price &gt; PREV(price),
+ DOWN AS price &lt; PREV(price)
+</programlisting>
+
+    Note that <function>PREV</function> returns price column in the previous
+    row if it's called in a context of row pattern recognition. So in the
+    second line means the definition variable "UP" is <literal>TRUE</literal>
+    when price column in the current row is greater than the price column in
+    the previous row. Likewise, "DOWN" is <literal>TRUE</literal> when when
+    price column in the current row is lower than the price column in the
+    previous row.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    Once <literal>DEFINE</literal> exists, <literal>PATTERN</literal> can be
+    used. <literal>PATTERN</literal> defines a sequence of rows that satisfies
+    certain conditions.  For example following <literal>PATTERN</literal>
+    defines that a row starts with the condition "LOWPRICE", then one or more
+    rows satisfy "UP" and finally one or more rows satisfy "DOWN". If a
+    sequence of rows found, rpr returns the column at the starting row.
+    Example of a <literal>SELECT</literal> using the <literal>DEFINE</literal>
+    and <literal>PATTERN</literal> clause is as follows.
+
+<programlisting>    
+SELECT company, tdate, price, max(price) OVER w FROM stock
+ WINDOW w AS (
+ PARTITION BY company
+ ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING
+ AFTER MATCH SKIP PAST LAST ROW
+ INITIAL
+ PATTERN (LOWPRICE UP+ DOWN+)
+ DEFINE
+  LOWPRICE AS price &lt;= 100,
+  UP AS price &gt; PREV(price),
+  DOWN AS price &lt; PREV(price)
+);
+</programlisting>
+   </para>
+
    <para>
     When a query involves multiple window functions, it is possible to write
     out each one with a separate <literal>OVER</literal> clause, but this is
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index be2f54c914..6cda164522 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -21715,6 +21715,7 @@ SELECT count(*) FROM sometable;
         returns <literal>NULL</literal> if there is no such row.
        </para></entry>
       </row>
+
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
@@ -21754,6 +21755,59 @@ SELECT count(*) FROM sometable;
    Other frame specifications can be used to obtain other effects.
   </para>
 
+  <para>
+   Row pattern recognition navigation functions are listed in
+   <xref linkend="functions-rpr-navigation-table"/>.  These functions
+   can be used to describe DEFINE clause of Row pattern recognition.
+  </para>
+
+   <table id="functions-rpr-navigation-table">
+    <title>Row Pattern Navigation Functions</title>
+    <tgroup cols="1">
+     <thead>
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        Function
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Description
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+     </thead>
+
+     <tbody>
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>prev</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>prev</function> ( <parameter>value</parameter> <type>anyelement</type> )
+        <returnvalue>anyelement</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns the column value at the previous row;
+        returns NULL if there is no previous row in the window frame.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>next</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>next</function> ( <parameter>value</parameter> <type>anyelement</type> )
+        <returnvalue>anyelement</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns the column value at the next row;
+        returns NULL if there is no next row in the window frame.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
+     </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+   </table>
+
   <note>
    <para>
     The SQL standard defines a <literal>RESPECT NULLS</literal> or
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
index 0ee0cc7e64..8d3becd57a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
@@ -966,8 +966,8 @@ WINDOW <replaceable class="parameter">window_name</replaceable> AS ( <replaceabl
     The <replaceable class="parameter">frame_clause</replaceable> can be one of
 
 <synopsis>
-{ RANGE | ROWS | GROUPS } <replaceable>frame_start</replaceable> [ <replaceable>frame_exclusion</replaceable> ]
-{ RANGE | ROWS | GROUPS } BETWEEN <replaceable>frame_start</replaceable> AND <replaceable>frame_end</replaceable> [ <replaceable>frame_exclusion</replaceable> ]
+{ RANGE | ROWS | GROUPS } <replaceable>frame_start</replaceable> [ <replaceable>frame_exclusion</replaceable> ] [row_pattern_common_syntax]
+{ RANGE | ROWS | GROUPS } BETWEEN <replaceable>frame_start</replaceable> AND <replaceable>frame_end</replaceable> [ <replaceable>frame_exclusion</replaceable> ] [row_pattern_common_syntax]
 </synopsis>
 
     where <replaceable>frame_start</replaceable>
@@ -1074,6 +1074,40 @@ EXCLUDE NO OTHERS
     a given peer group will be in the frame or excluded from it.
    </para>
 
+   <para>
+    The
+    optional <replaceable class="parameter">row_pattern_common_syntax</replaceable>
+    defines the <firstterm>row pattern recognition condition</firstterm> for
+    this
+    window. <replaceable class="parameter">row_pattern_common_syntax</replaceable>
+    includes following subclauses. <literal>AFTER MATCH SKIP PAST LAST
+    ROW</literal> or <literal>AFTER MATCH SKIP TO NEXT ROW</literal> controls
+    how to proceed to next row position after a match
+    found. With <literal>AFTER MATCH SKIP PAST LAST ROW</literal> (the
+    default) next row position is next to the last row of previous match. On
+    the other hand, with <literal>AFTER MATCH SKIP TO NEXT ROW</literal> next
+    row position is always next to the last row of previous
+    match. <literal>DEFINE</literal> defines definition variables along with a
+    boolean expression. <literal>PATTERN</literal> defines a sequence of rows
+    that satisfies certain conditions using variables defined
+    in <literal>DEFINE</literal> clause. If the variable is not defined in
+    the <literal>DEFINE</literal> clause, it is implicitly assumed
+    following is defined in the <literal>DEFINE</literal> clause.
+
+<synopsis>
+<literal>variable_name</literal> AS TRUE
+</synopsis>
+
+    Note that the maximu number of variables defined
+    in <literal>DEFINE</literal> clause is 26.
+
+<synopsis>
+[ AFTER MATCH SKIP PAST LAST ROW | AFTER MATCH SKIP TO NEXT ROW ]
+PATTERN <replaceable class="parameter">pattern_variable_name</replaceable>[+] [, ...]
+DEFINE <replaceable class="parameter">definition_varible_name</replaceable> AS <replaceable class="parameter">expression</replaceable> [, ...]
+</synopsis>    
+   </para>
+
    <para>
     The purpose of a <literal>WINDOW</literal> clause is to specify the
     behavior of <firstterm>window functions</firstterm> appearing in the query's
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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* [PATCH v13a 7/9] ci: get build/test concurrency from environment
@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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@ 2026-06-10 18:49 Andres Freund <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 142+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)

Previously we hardcoded the amount of concurrency in the CI definition. This
practice IIRC originated from a) using make, where the concurrency is not
sourced from the current system b) early cirrus-ci macos runners, which slowed
down a lot with full concurrency.

Hardcoding the concurrency is problematic as e.g. private repositories have
lower concurrency and larger github runners have more cores.

For most of the jobs we can rely on just using meson's and ninja's logic for
getting the current core count. For the autoconf we can use the nproc helper.

To make this at least somewhat understandable, I added the existing sysinfo
step to show the number of cores (and made it a bit easier to understand the
information already printed).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2ejn7lfqolutzz7kozalbhy3bixdrujb4buc3pgbtlk4am2ba@wbv6v7riia33
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index ab7950f6f14..9384ec0d902 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ env:
   # concurrent jobs and retrying older runs have a chance of working.
   CLONE_DEPTH: 500
 
-  # At the moment all jobs use 4vcore runners, and none seems to benefit from
-  # increasing concurrency further.
-  BUILD_JOBS: 4
-
-  # It's possible that some jobs benefit from an increased test concurrency,
-  # but a default of 4 is a safe bet. Individual jobs can override.
-  TEST_JOBS: 4
-
   CCACHE_MAXSIZE: "250M"
   CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/ccache_dir
 
@@ -215,10 +207,19 @@ jobs:
       - &nix_sysinfo_step
         name: sysinfo
         run: |
-          id
-          uname -a
+          echo -n "Number of cores: "
+          nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl hw.physicalcpu hw.logicalcpu
+
+          echo "id: $(id)"
+          echo "uname: $(uname -a)"
+
+          echo ::group::ulimit
           ulimit -a -H && ulimit -a -S
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           env
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       - name: Parse ci-os-only
         id: os
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: &ninja_build_cmd |
-          ninja -C build -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
           ninja -C build -t missingdeps
 
       # Decide if it's worth uploading a new version of the ccache cache. If
@@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --suite setup --logbase setup || exit 1
           echo ::endgroup::
 
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --no-suite setup ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
 
       - &linux_collect_cores_step
         name: Core backtraces
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s -j${BUILD_JOBS} world-bin
+          make -s -j$(nproc) world-bin
 
       - *ccache_decide_save_step
       - *ccache_save_step
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test world
         shell: *su_postgres_shell
         run: |
-          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j${TEST_JOBS}
+          make -s ${CHECK} ${CHECKFLAGS} -j$(nproc)
 
       - *linux_collect_cores_step
       - *upload_logs_step
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ jobs:
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -c -o '-c fsync=off' -D build/runningcheck -l build/testrun/runningcheck.log start
 
           # Run the tests supporting running against an already running
-          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --num-processes ${{env.TEST_JOBS}} --setup running
+          meson test ${{env.MTEST_ARGS}} --setup running
 
           build/tmp_install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D build/runningcheck stop
 
@@ -893,9 +894,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Sysinfo
         run: |
+          echo Number of cores:
+          bash -c nproc
+
+          echo codepage:
           chcp
+
+          echo ::group::systeminfo
           systeminfo
+          echo ::endgroup::
+
+          echo ::group::env
           set
+          echo ::endgroup::
 
       # The TAP tests build an initdb template under build/tmp_install and
       # then `robocopy` it into per-test data directories. Robocopy with the
@@ -1198,7 +1209,7 @@ jobs:
           meson setup -Dwerror=true $CONF build-meson
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          ninja -C build-meson --quiet -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
+          ninja -C build-meson --quiet ${{env.MBUILD_TARGET}}
 
       # gcc, cassert on, dtrace off
       - name: gcc warnings + (cassert)
@@ -1266,8 +1277,8 @@ jobs:
             CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" CLANG="ccache clang"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} clean
-          make -s -j${{env.BUILD_JOBS}} -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
+          make -s -j$(nproc) clean
+          make -s -j$(nproc) -k ${{env.CHECKFLAGS}} \
             headerscheck cpluspluscheck \
             EXTRAFLAGS='-fmax-errors=10'
 
-- 
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