| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: initdb and fsync |
| Date: | 2012-02-10 20:57:52 |
| Message-ID: | 1328907472.5373.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On sön, 2012-02-05 at 10:53 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > initdb should do these syncs by default and offer an option to
> disable them.
>
> For test frameworks that run initdb often, that makes sense.
>
> But for developers, it doesn't make sense to spend 0.5s typing an
> option
> that saves you 0.3s. So, we'd need some more convenient way to choose
> the no-fsync option, like an environment variable that developers can
> set. Or maybe developers don't care about 0.3s?
>
You can use https://launchpad.net/libeatmydata for those cases.
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