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

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-04-15T18:13:21Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Sure. Just means putting this code a bit later in the file. "make check"
> is only one initdb, so it won't cost much. I'm still inclined to force a
> TAP test for initdb with no TZ set, though.

I'd like that to be an additional tweak for some existing test case
rather than expending a whole initdb run just for that --- but otherwise,
no objection.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink.

  2. Make sure to run one initdb TAP test with no TZ set

  3. Use one transaction while reading postgres.bki, not one per line.

  4. Move bootstrap-time lookup of regproc OIDs into genbki.pl.