Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded)

On 04/15/2017 11:44 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Alternatively, we could have an initdb TAP test that explicitly removed
>> the environment setting so we'd get coverage of select_default_timezone,
>> and have the buildfarm set TZ to something if it's not already set.
> What about having an initdb option that runs select_default_timezone
> only and reports the result, so that it can be used in the buildfarm
> script to set TZ in all the regular initdb calls?
>


Seems like more work.

What I had in mind was the attached plus roughly this in the buildfarm
client:

    $ENV{TZ} ||= 'US/Eastern';

or whatever zone we choose to use.

cheers

andrew

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