On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Arjun Ranade wrote: > Pre-copying is not really an option since we could potentially need 1-X > instances so it needs to be scalable. Would it work to have a PG instance with a ready-to-use cluster/DB inside a VM, and make a copy of that as needed ? The copies then get thrown away. Same here, pre-copying a bunch of VMs would help. Disk space is (apparently) cheaper than time (for your use case). Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B