Tweak run_check.sh so it prints the name of each test in a parallel group

as that test finishes --- helps to give the impression that something is
happening...

diff --git a/src/test/regress/run_check.sh b/src/test/regress/run_check.sh
index f289687dd7f0cff3637c5a726ea528c2aad8c47c..877d8fae5ecc6d46722c35df2c8c085b88ed87de 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/test/regress/run_check.sh
+++ b/src/test/regress/run_check.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
-# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/test/regress/Attic/run_check.sh,v 1.2 1999/11/20 20:21:30 tgl Exp $
+# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/test/regress/Attic/run_check.sh,v 1.3 1999/11/21 01:53:39 tgl Exp $
 
 # ----------
 # This is currently needed because the actual 7.0 psql makes
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ fi
 
 echo "=============== Create ./tmp_check directory           ================"
 mkdir -p $CHKDIR
-mkdir -p $PGDATA
 mkdir -p $LOGDIR
 
 
@@ -264,7 +263,7 @@ lno=0
        case $type in
                parallel)       # ----------
                                        # This is the beginning of a new group of
-                                       # tests that should be executed parallel.
+                                       # tests that should be executed in parallel.
                                        # ----------
                                        parlist=
                                        parlno=$lno
@@ -330,28 +329,33 @@ lno=0
                                        fi
 
                                        # ----------
-                                       # Tell what we're doing and start them all in background.
-                                       # The bourne shell's wait is
-                                       # too dumb to do it smarter. I'd really like to see
-                                       # the ok|failed message as soon as the individual tests
-                                       # finish. That'd make it easier to start longer running
-                                       # ones first to increase concurrency.
+                                       # Tell what we're doing and then start them all, using
+                                       # a subshell for each one.  The subshell is just there
+                                       # to print the test name when it finishes, so one can
+                                       # see which tests finish fastest.  We do NOT run the
+                                       # ok/failed comparison tests in the parallel subshells,
+                                       # because we want the diffs (if any) to come out in a
+                                       # predictable order --- and certainly not interleaved!
                                        # ----------
                                        gnam=`echo "$pargroup ($parntests tests)" | awk '{printf "%-26.26s", $0;}'`
-                                       $ECHO_N "parallel $gnam  ... " $ECHO_C
-
-                                       for name in $parlist ; do
-                                               $FRONTEND regression < sql/${name}.sql                  \
-                                                       > results/${name}.out 2>&1  &
+                                       echo "parallel $gnam  ..."
+
+                                       for name in $parlist
+                                       do
+                                               (
+                                                       $FRONTEND regression < sql/${name}.sql                  \
+                                                               > results/${name}.out 2>&1
+                                                       $ECHO_N " $name" $ECHO_C
+                                               ) &
                                        done
                                        wait
+                                       echo ""
 
                                        # ----------
                                        # Setup status information for the diff check below
                                        # ----------
                                        checklist=$parlist
                                        checkpname=1
-                                       echo "done"
                                        ;;
 
                test)           # ----------