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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: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-10T20:57:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On sön, 2012-02-05 at 10:53 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > initdb should do these syncs by default and offer an option to
> disable them.
> 
> For test frameworks that run initdb often, that makes sense.
> 
> But for developers, it doesn't make sense to spend 0.5s typing an
> option
> that saves you 0.3s. So, we'd need some more convenient way to choose
> the no-fsync option, like an environment variable that developers can
> set. Or maybe developers don't care about 0.3s?
> 
You can use https://launchpad.net/libeatmydata for those cases.