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* [PATCH] Split out entry names in pg_resetwal
@ 2025-11-14 15:25  Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2025-11-14 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw)

---
 src/bin/pg_resetwal/entries.h     |  62 ++++++++++++++
 src/bin/pg_resetwal/nls.mk        |   4 +-
 src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/bin/pg_resetwal/entries.h

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_resetwal/entries.h b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/entries.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6b7686da83a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/entries.h
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("pg_control version number",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.pg_control_version)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Catalog version number",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.catalog_version_no)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Database system identifier",
+				 "%" PRIu64, ControlFile.system_identifier)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.ThisTimeLineID)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's full_page_writes",
+				 "%s", (ControlFile.checkPointCopy.fullPageWrites ? _("on") : _("off")))
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's NextXID",
+				 "%u:%u", EpochFromFullTransactionId(ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextXid), XidFromFullTransactionId(ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextXid))
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's NextOID",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextOid)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's NextMultiXactId",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextMulti)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's NextMultiOffset",
+				 "%" PRIu64, ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextMultiOffset)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestXID",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXid)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestXID's DB",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXidDB)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestActiveXID",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestActiveXid)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestMultiXid",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestMulti)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestMulti's DB",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestMultiDB)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's oldestCommitTsXid",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestCommitTsXid)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Latest checkpoint's newestCommitTsXid",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.checkPointCopy.newestCommitTsXid)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Maximum data alignment",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.maxAlign)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Database block size",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.blcksz)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Blocks per segment of large relation",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.relseg_size)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Pages per SLRU segment",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.slru_pages_per_segment)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("WAL block size",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.xlog_blcksz)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Bytes per WAL segment",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.xlog_seg_size)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Maximum length of identifiers",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.nameDataLen)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Maximum columns in an index",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.indexMaxKeys)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Maximum size of a TOAST chunk",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.toast_max_chunk_size)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Size of a large-object chunk",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.loblksize)
+
+/* This is no longer configurable, but users may still expect to see it: */
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Date/time type storage",
+				 "%s", _("64-bit integers"))
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Float8 argument passing",
+				 "%s", ControlFile.float8ByVal ? _("by value") : _("by reference"))
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Data page checksum version",
+				 "%u", ControlFile.data_checksum_version)
+CONTROLDATA_LINE("Default char data signedness",
+				 "%s", ControlFile.default_char_signedness ? _("signed") : _("unsigned"))
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_resetwal/nls.mk b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/nls.mk
index 694d5420a29..8dabee72bef 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_resetwal/nls.mk
+++ b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/nls.mk
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 CATALOG_NAME     = pg_resetwal
 GETTEXT_FILES    = $(FRONTEND_COMMON_GETTEXT_FILES) \
                    pg_resetwal.c \
+                   entries.h \
                    ../../common/controldata_utils.c \
                    ../../common/fe_memutils.c \
                    ../../common/file_utils.c \
                    ../../common/restricted_token.c \
                    ../../fe_utils/option_utils.c
-GETTEXT_TRIGGERS = $(FRONTEND_COMMON_GETTEXT_TRIGGERS)
+GETTEXT_TRIGGERS = $(FRONTEND_COMMON_GETTEXT_TRIGGERS) \
+				   CONTROLDATA_LINE:1
 GETTEXT_FLAGS    = $(FRONTEND_COMMON_GETTEXT_FLAGS)
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c
index 431b83a67da..fb17b6f80e0 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include "fe_utils/option_utils.h"
 #include "fe_utils/version.h"
 #include "getopt_long.h"
+#include "mb/pg_wchar.h"
 #include "pg_getopt.h"
 #include "storage/large_object.h"
 
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ static void KillExistingArchiveStatus(void);
 static void KillExistingWALSummaries(void);
 static void WriteEmptyXLOG(void);
 static void usage(void);
+static int	internal_wcswidth(const char *pwcs, size_t len, int encoding);
 static uint32 strtouint32_strict(const char *restrict s, char **restrict endptr, int base);
 static uint64 strtouint64_strict(const char *restrict s, char **restrict endptr, int base);
 
@@ -753,74 +755,48 @@ GuessControlValues(void)
 static void
 PrintControlValues(bool guessed)
 {
+	int			encoding = pg_get_encoding_from_locale(NULL, true);
+	int			maxlen = 0;
+	int			thislen;
+
 	if (guessed)
 		printf(_("Guessed pg_control values:\n\n"));
 	else
 		printf(_("Current pg_control values:\n\n"));
 
-	printf(_("pg_control version number:            %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.pg_control_version);
-	printf(_("Catalog version number:               %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.catalog_version_no);
-	printf(_("Database system identifier:           %" PRIu64 "\n"),
-		   ControlFile.system_identifier);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID:       %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.ThisTimeLineID);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's full_page_writes: %s\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.fullPageWrites ? _("on") : _("off"));
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's NextXID:          %u:%u\n"),
-		   EpochFromFullTransactionId(ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextXid),
-		   XidFromFullTransactionId(ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextXid));
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's NextOID:          %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextOid);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's NextMultiXactId:  %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextMulti);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's NextMultiOffset:  %" PRIu64 "\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.nextMultiOffset);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestXID:        %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXid);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestXID's DB:   %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXidDB);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestActiveXID:  %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestActiveXid);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestMultiXid:   %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestMulti);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestMulti's DB: %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestMultiDB);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's oldestCommitTsXid:%u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestCommitTsXid);
-	printf(_("Latest checkpoint's newestCommitTsXid:%u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.checkPointCopy.newestCommitTsXid);
-	printf(_("Maximum data alignment:               %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.maxAlign);
-	/* we don't print floatFormat since can't say much useful about it */
-	printf(_("Database block size:                  %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.blcksz);
-	printf(_("Blocks per segment of large relation: %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.relseg_size);
-	printf(_("Pages per SLRU segment:               %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.slru_pages_per_segment);
-	printf(_("WAL block size:                       %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.xlog_blcksz);
-	printf(_("Bytes per WAL segment:                %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.xlog_seg_size);
-	printf(_("Maximum length of identifiers:        %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.nameDataLen);
-	printf(_("Maximum columns in an index:          %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.indexMaxKeys);
-	printf(_("Maximum size of a TOAST chunk:        %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.toast_max_chunk_size);
-	printf(_("Size of a large-object chunk:         %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.loblksize);
-	/* This is no longer configurable, but users may still expect to see it: */
-	printf(_("Date/time type storage:               %s\n"),
-		   _("64-bit integers"));
-	printf(_("Float8 argument passing:              %s\n"),
-		   (ControlFile.float8ByVal ? _("by value") : _("by reference")));
-	printf(_("Data page checksum version:           %u\n"),
-		   ControlFile.data_checksum_version);
-	printf(_("Default char data signedness:         %s\n"),
-		   (ControlFile.default_char_signedness ? _("signed") : _("unsigned")));
+	/*
+	 * First, determine the maximum length of the description of all entries,
+	 * some or all of which might be translated.
+	 */
+#define CONTROLDATA_LINE(description, fmt, ...)			\
+	thislen = internal_wcswidth(_(description),			\
+								strlen(_(description)),	\
+								encoding);				\
+	if (thislen > maxlen)								\
+		maxlen = thislen;
+#include "entries.h"
+#undef CONTROLDATA_LINE
+
+	/*
+	 * Print each line: the possibly-translated description, then some padding
+	 * spaces according to its display width, then the value.
+	 */
+#define CONTROLDATA_LINE(description, fmt, ...)			\
+	{													\
+		int		thisstrlen;								\
+														\
+		thisstrlen = strlen(_(description));			\
+		thislen = internal_wcswidth(_(description),		\
+									thisstrlen,			\
+									encoding);			\
+		printf("%s:%*s" fmt "\n",						\
+			   _(description),							\
+			   maxlen - thislen + 2,					\
+			   " ",										\
+			   __VA_ARGS__);							\
+	}
+#include "entries.h"
+#undef CONTROLDATA_LINE
 }
 
 
@@ -1238,6 +1214,36 @@ usage(void)
 	printf(_("%s home page: <%s>\n"), PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_URL);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Measure the display length of a single-line string in the given encoding.
+ *
+ * Similar to pg_wcswidth, written without dependency on libpq.
+ */
+static int
+internal_wcswidth(const char *pwcs, size_t len, int encoding)
+{
+	int			width = 0;
+
+	while (len > 0)
+	{
+		int			chlen,
+					chwidth;
+
+		chlen = pg_encoding_mblen(encoding, pwcs);
+		if (len < (size_t) chlen)
+			break;				/* Invalid string */
+
+		chwidth = pg_encoding_dsplen(encoding, pwcs);
+		if (chwidth > 0)
+			width += chwidth;
+
+		pwcs += chlen;
+		len -= chlen;
+	}
+	return width;
+}
+
+
 /*
  * strtouint32_strict -- like strtoul(), but returns uint32 and doesn't accept
  * negative values
-- 
2.47.3


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
2.54.0.380.gc69baaf57b


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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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* [PATCH v9a 22/22] ci: Slice tests on windows-vs across two runners
@ 2026-06-03 17:41  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 249+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2026-06-03 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Without windows-vs is about 10min slower than the others tasks (windows-vs is
currently 31m40s, windows-mingw is 20m45s), which makes for a frustrating
experience. It seems worth "sacrificing" one of the 20 available concurrent
jobs to avoid that. This reduces the time down to about 18m.

ci-os-only: windows
---
 .github/workflows/pg-ci.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
index 93b17af46df..83ee93ce5d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-ci.yml
@@ -723,8 +723,13 @@ jobs:
 
 
   # Job: Windows - Visual Studio
+  #
+  # If we were to execute tests in this job serially, this would be the
+  # slowest job by a good margin. To avoid that, use a matrix in combination
+  # with meson test's --slice SLICE/NUM_SLICES mechanism to split the tests
+  # across two runners.
   windows-vs:
-    name: Windows - Visual Studio
+    name: Windows - Visual Studio - Slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}}
     needs: [setup, sanity-check]
     if: |
       !cancelled() &&
@@ -732,6 +737,17 @@ jobs:
       needs.sanity-check.result != 'failure'
     runs-on: windows-2022
     timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two runners
+    # for performance. The gains from additional concurrency diminish
+    # relatively quickly, due to each instance having to install dependencies
+    # and build postgres.
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        num_slices: [2]
+        slice: [1, 2]
+
     env:
       # Avoid port conflicts between concurrent tap tests
       PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS: 1
@@ -885,6 +901,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test world
         env:
+          # As described at the top of the task, split the tests across two
+          # runners for performance.  It's not the prettiest to implement this
+          # by prepending to MTEST_TARGET, but a more complicated solution
+          # doesn't seem worth it.
+          MTEST_TARGET: --slice ${{ matrix.slice}}/${{ matrix.num_slices}} ${{env.MTEST_TARGET}}
           ADDITIONAL_SETUP: |
             call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
         run: *meson_test_world_cmd
-- 
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