Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0
Date: 2018-02-01 13:42:35
Message-ID: 38753444-0859-ff41-f8af-acd744bb0d83@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/31/18 13:34, Andres Freund wrote:
> That's a fair argument, and I don't really have a good answer to it. We
> could have a jit = off/try/on, and use that to signal things? I.e. it
> can be set to try (possibly default in version + 1), and things will
> work if it's not installed, but if set to on it'll refuse to work if not
> enabled. Similar to how huge pages work now.

But that setup also has the problem that you can't query the setting to
know whether it's actually on.

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