The check to see whether a build had been scheduled in a previous
evaluation took about 200 ms for the nixpkgs:trunk jobset. Given
that it has more than 15000 builds, this added up to a lot. Now
it takes 0.2 ms per build.
The action .../jobset/<project>/<jobset>/latest-eval redirects to the
latest evaluation of the jobset that has no unfinished builds. Thus,
for instance,
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/latest-eval/channel
is the channel containing the latest consistent set of Nixpkgs builds.
The URI parameter "compare=..." can denote either an arbitrary
evaluation ID, or the name of a jobset in the same project. In the
latter case, the comparison is made against the latest completed
evaluation of the specified jobset.
This happened in a pathological case in Nixpkgs: the "grub" job is
evaluated for i686-linux and x86_64-linux, but in the latter case it
returns the same derivation as in the former case. So only one build
should be added.
This gets rid of the openHydraDB function and ensures that we
open the database in a consistent way.
Also drop the PostgreSQL sequence hacks. They don't seem to be
necessary anymore.
When checking whether the jobset is unchanged, we need to compare with
the previous JobsetEval regardless of whether it had new builds.
Otherwise we'll keep adding new JobsetEval rows.
Because of the way DBIx::Class does prepared statements, even
innocuous queries such
$c->model('DB::Builds)->search({finished => 0})
can be extremely slow. This is because DBIx::Class prepares a
PostgreSQL statement
select ... from Builds where finished = ?
and since Builds is very large and there is a large fraction of rows
with "finished = 1", the PostgreSQL query planner decides to implement
this query with a sequential scan of the Builds table (despite the
existence of an index on "finished"), which is extremely slow. It
would be nice if we could tell DBIx::Class that constants should be
part of the prepared statement, i.e.
select ... from Builds where finished = 0
but AFAIK we can't.
In particular the /pkg action is now O(lg n) instead of O(n) in the
number of packages in the channel, and listing the channel contents
no longer requires calling isValidPath() on all packages.
Derivations (and thus build time dependencies) are no longer included
in the channel, because they're not GC roots. Thus they could
disappear unexpectedly.
This isn't perfect because it doesn't handle the case where a
previous build hasn't finished yet. But at least it won't send mail
for old builds that fail while a newer build has already succeeded.
