Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>We need both, I think. I am still trying to find out why it's taking so
>>long. This is on the 8.0 branch, though. Later branches seem to be working.
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>One idea that comes to mind is a DNS lookup timeout. Can you strace the
>postmaster to see what it's doing?
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There is ktrace output I managed to capture at
http://developer.postgresql.org/~adunstan/ktrace.txt
Not sure what it tells us. I do see it reading in the whole timezone db,
which isn't pretty.
cheers
andrew