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ci: Use windows VMs instead of windows containers
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So far we have used containers for testing windows on cirrus-ci. Unfortunately
they come with substantial overhead: First, the container images are pulled
onto the host on-demand. Due to the large size of windows containers, that
ends up taking nearly 4 minutes. Secondly, IO is slow, leading to CI runs
taking long.

Thus switch to windows VMs, improving windows CI times by well over 2x.

Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/211afb88-6df6-b74d-f1b7-84b5f21ad875@gmail.com
Backpatch: 15-, where CI was added
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anarazel committed Feb 3, 2023
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only_if: $CIRRUS_CHANGE_MESSAGE !=~ '.*\nci-os-only:.*' || $CIRRUS_CHANGE_MESSAGE =~ '.*\nci-os-only:[^\n]*windows.*'

windows_container:
image: $CONTAINER_REPO/windows_ci_vs_2019:latest
compute_engine_instance:
image_project: $IMAGE_PROJECT
image: family/pg-ci-windows-ci-vs-2019
platform: windows
cpu: $CPUS
memory: 4G

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