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From Andrew Dunstan
Subject stat /etc/localtime 38000 times on startup?
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Msg-id 43C11935.6060301@dunslane.net
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Responses Re: stat /etc/localtime 38000 times on startup?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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?

cheers

andrew

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