Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2018-08-10T18:31:25Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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check-etc-localtime-symlink-for-zone-name-2.patch (text/x-diff) patch

I wrote:
>> ... I'll
>> take a look at whipping up something that checks /etc/localtime.

> Here's a draft patch.  It seems to do what I expect on a couple of
> different macOS releases as well as recent Fedora.

The cfbot points out that this has suffered bit-rot, so here's a rebased
version --- no substantive changes.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink.
- 995b4fe0b14f 11.4 landed
- 8de574aa8bf7 10.9 landed
- 77dc741a1727 9.5.18 landed
- 75b0f21e1b19 9.6.14 landed
- 37011bcb30a9 9.4.23 landed
- 23bd3cec6eb1 12.0 landed
Make sure to run one initdb TAP test with no TZ set
- 033b969edde6 10.0 landed
Use one transaction while reading postgres.bki, not one per line.
- 85a0781334a2 10.0 landed
Move bootstrap-time lookup of regproc OIDs into genbki.pl.
- 5e39f06cfe65 10.0 landed