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Re: CREATE DATABASE with filesystem cloning

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-10-11T06:40:19Z
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On 07.10.23 07:51, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Here is an experimental POC of fast/cheap database cloning.

Here are some previous discussions of this:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20131001223108.GG23410%40saarenmaa.fi

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/511B5D11.4040507%40socialserve.com

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bc9ca382-b98d-0446-f699-8c5de2307ca7%402ndquadrant.com

(I don't see any clear conclusions in any of these threads, but it might 
be good to check them in any case.)

Commits

  1. Introduce file_copy_method setting.