Hi,
On 2022-02-10 10:32:42 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I won't really be surprised if we hear that someone has a 10GB
> template database and likes to make a ton of copies and only change
> 500 rows in each one while replicating the whole thing over a slow
> WAN. That can definitely happen, and I'm sure whoever is doing that
> has reasons for it which they consider good and sufficient. However, I
> don't think there are likely to be a ton of people doing stuff like
> that - just a few.
Yea. I would be a bit more concerned if we made creating template databases
very cheap, e.g. by using file copy-on-write functionality like we have for
pg_upgrade. But right now it's a fairly hefty operation anyway.
Greetings,
Andres Freund