From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded) |
Date: | 2018-05-09 15:39:24 |
Message-ID: | 20180509153924.32kvslqeqdyco7c5@alvherre.pgsql |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Really the only thing here that jumps out as being unduly expensive for
> >> what it's doing is select_default_timezone. That is, and always has been,
> >> a brute-force algorithm; I wonder if there's a way to do better?
>
> > Who says we need a portable way? If we had something that worked on
> > Linux and macOS, it would cover most developer environments. I wonder
> > if readlink("/etc/localtime", buf, sz) might be a viable approach.
>
> I wondered about that, but I'm afraid it's often a hardlink not a
> symlink. Still, we could try it.
In Debian systems, it's a symlink. Apparently in RHEL6 and older it's a
copy or hardlink, and the file /etc/sysconfig/clock contains a ZONE
variable that points to the right zone. Maybe if we add enough
platform-dependent hacks, we would use the slow fallback only for rare
cases. (Maybe have initdb emit a warning when the fallback is used, so
that we know what else to look for.)
This comment is insightful:
https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/issues/269#issuecomment-353792132
It's talking about this code:
https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/blob/master/src/tz.cpp#L3652
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