Re: Methods to quickly spin up copies of an existing databases

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Arjun Ranade wrote:

> Pre-copying is not really an option since we could potentially need 1-X
> instances so it needs to be scalable.

Would it work to have a PG instance with a ready-to-use
cluster/DB inside a VM, and make a copy of that as needed ? 
The copies then get thrown away.

Same here, pre-copying a bunch of VMs would help. Disk space
is (apparently) cheaper than time (for your use case).

Karsten
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