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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:59 +0100
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On Thursday 10 December 2009 21:41:08 Michael Clemmons wrote:
> Hey,
> I've got a computer which runs but 8.3 and 8.4.  To create a db it takes 4s
> for 8.3 and 9s for 8.4.  I have many unit tests which create databases all
> of the time and now run much slower than 8.3 but it seems to be much longer
> as I remember at one point creating databases I considered an instantaneous
> thing.  Does any on the list know why this is true and if I can get it back
> to normal.
Possibly you had fsync=off at the time?

Andres