On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2016-09-13 10:35:38 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Craig Ringer
>> <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> > We need it for tap tests. More and more will use pg_basebackup and it'll
>> > start hurting test speeds badly.
>>
>> Ah yes, that's a good argument. hamster would suffer pretty badly
>> after that if nothing is done. I'll get an extra patch out for that,
>> with --no-sync and not --nosync by the way.
>
> FWIW, it might be better to instead use eatmydata in the cron
> invocations on such slow machines, that way we also test the fsync paths
> in them.
Er, well.. libeatmydata is only available in AUR for Archlinux x86_64,
and not in sight for Arch ARM...
--
Michael