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Re: initdb caching during tests

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-08-25T05:50:45Z
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:10 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Let's see what the buildfarm says - it's not inconceivable that it'll show
> some issues.

Apparently Solaris doesn't like "cp -a", per animal "margay".  I think
"cp -RPp" should be enough everywhere?

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37839/cp-1.html
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/utilities/cp.html

Commits

  1. Don't clean initdb files on template creation failure

  2. Avoid non-POSIX cp flags

  3. Use "template" data directory in tests

  4. tests: Consistently use pg_basebackup -cfast --no-sync to accelerate tests.