Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > I'm curious what problem we're actually solving here, though. I've run > the buildfarm countless thousands of times on different VMs, and five of > my seven current animals run in VMs, and I don't think I've ever seen a > failure ascribable to inadequately synced files from initdb.
Yeah. Personally I would be sad if initdb got noticeably slower, and I've never seen or heard of a failure that this would fix. I wonder whether it wouldn't be sufficient to call sync(2) at the end, anyway, rather than cluttering the entire initdb codebase with fsync calls. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers