Re: Why do pg_upgrade's test use the serial schedule?

On 2018-11-05 16:10:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > ISTM we also should disable fsyncs for the postmaster instances. Wins
> > another ~5s on my laptop, and I suspect it makes a larger difference on
> > some of the buildfarm animals.
> 
> Buildfarm did that long ago.

I don't think it did for pg_upgrade's test.sh?

POSTMASTER_OPTS="-F -c listen_addresses=\"$LISTEN_ADDRESSES\" -k \"$PGHOST\""
...
"$oldbindir"/pg_ctl start -l "$logdir/postmaster1.log" -o "$POSTMASTER_OPTS" -w

Andres Freund