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Re: initdb and fsync

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-06-18T18:52:25Z
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On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 21:34 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

OK, changing back to using -N during regression tests due to performance
concerns.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis