Re: Time to run initdb is mostly figure-out-the-timezone work

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to run initdb is mostly figure-out-the-timezone work
Date: 2009-12-19 21:12:44
Message-ID: 34d269d40912191312qb95df0ch949c48b1ba1e4758@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:57, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Obviously there's something there for the kernel guys to fix, but
> even with a non-borked kernel it's an expensive thing to do.

Any thoughts on back patching this? While its not a bug per-say, it
seems reasonably low-risk. I for one would love a 2-4x initdb speedup
in the back branches :) Granted now I know I can just set TZ...

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