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

On 04/15/2017 12:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> 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.
> How about letting the first "make check" run with whatever is in the
> environment, and then forcing TZ to become set (much as above) for
> all the remaining tests? I'm afraid what you've got here might
> encourage a certain sameness of the test environments.
>
>

Sure. Just means putting this code a bit later in the file. "make check"
is only one initdb, so it won't cost much. I'm still inclined to force a
TAP test for initdb with no TZ set, though.

cheers

andrew

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