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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-10T20:10:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Yeah, I had hoped that this might make a noticeable difference on slower
> buildfarm animals, but some testing shows that it's more likely to be
> barely above the noise floor.

Any idea why?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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.