Re: --enable-depend by default (was Re: Patch: fix lock contention for HASHHDR.mutex)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: --enable-depend by default (was Re: Patch: fix lock contention for HASHHDR.mutex)
Date: 2015-12-30 16:13:31
Message-ID: 13401.1451492011@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Alternately the buildfarm could be changed to retain earlier builds and use
> dependencies to reduce build times. This would have the benefit of
> detecting dependency failures. At the expense of a lot more noise, at least
> until we Orrin out whatever dependency failures are there now.

The buildfarm already made its choice in this area, and that's ccache.
Layering --enable-depend on top of builds that are using ccache is
simply a waste.

(Admittedly, ccache is gcc-specific, but TTBOTMK so is --enable-depend.)

regards, tom lane

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