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On faster machines, the overall runtime for running the core regression tests is under twenty seconds these days, of which the hard-wired delays in the stats test are a significant fraction. But on closer inspection, it seems like we shouldn't need those. The initial 2-second delay is there only to reduce the risk of the test's stats messages not getting sent due to contention. But analysis of the last ten years' worth of buildfarm runs shows no evidence that such failures actually occur. (We do see failures that look like stats messages not getting sent, particularly on Windows; but there is little reason to believe that the initial delay reduces their frequency.) The later 1-second delay is there to ensure that our session's stats will have gotten sent. But we could also do that by starting a fresh session, which takes well under 1 second even on very slow machines. Hence, let's remove both delays and see what happens. The first delay was the only test of pg_sleep_for() in the regression tests, but we can move that responsibility into wait_for_stats(). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17795.1493869423@sss.pgh.pa.us
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