Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I just traced starting up a postmaster, and got over 38000 lines like this:
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1267, ...}) = 0
> I assume it comes from the timezone library, but it seems highly
> inefficient. Anyone know why we might get this?
glibc's strftime does that if you don't have a TZ value set in the
postmaster's environment.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg00884.php
regards, tom lane