Re: initdb and fsync
David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Date: 2012-06-19T15:33:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:34:30PM +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. What sorts of coverage would we want? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate