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

Tom Lane wrote:
> On current Fedora 11, there is a huge difference in initdb time if you
> have TZ set versus if you don't: I get about 18 seconds versus less than
> four.

Wow, I can reproduce this (11-12 secs when no TZ versus 5 when TZ is
defined).  I'd never noticed because I normally have TZ set; but yes I
agree that this is worthwhile.

I notice that most of the difference is system time ... I imagine we do
a lot of syscalls to guess the timezone.

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