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Re: initdb and fsync

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Date: 2012-06-18T18:34:30Z
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On mån, 2012-06-18 at 18:05 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> - defaulting to initdb -N in the regression suite is not a good imo,
> because that way the buildfarm won't catch problems in that area...
> 
The regression test suite also starts postgres with fsync off.  This is
good, and I don't want to have more overhead in the tests.  It's not
like we already have awesome test coverage for OS interaction.