Re: PostgreSQL 12, JIT defaults

On October 8, 2018 8:10:45 AM PDT, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
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>On October 8, 2018 8:03:56 AM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> This seems, at best, rather user-unfriendly.
>>And it's not like our conventions for other compile-option-affected
>>GUCs, eg the SSL ones.
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>That was intentional, even though it perhaps should be better
>documented. That allows a distro to build and distribute pg without
>llvm enabled, but then have the JIT package with all the dependencies
>separately. The pg yum packages do so.

There's a function for checking whether JIT is actually available, BTW. pg_jit_available(). That also works if somebody installs an extension that's not ours (by setting jit_provider = ...).

Andres

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