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Re: initdb caching during tests

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-12-07T14:06:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 7 Dec 2023, at 14:50, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:

> Attached a patch that fixes this for both make and meson, by adding
> --no-clean to the initdb template.

Makes sense.  While in there I think we should rename -N to the long optoin
--no-sync to make it easier to grep for and make the buildfiles more
self-documenting.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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.