Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Unfortunately, that has the pretty significant downside that a lot of
> people who actually want the postgresql-server-jit package will not
> realize that they need to install it, which sucks. But I think it
> might still be the better way to go. Anyway, it's for individual
> packagers to cope with that problem; as far as the patch goes, +1 for
> structuring things in a way which gives packagers the option to divide
> it up that way.

I don't know about rpm/yum/dnf, but in dpkg/apt one could declare that
postgresql-server recommends postgresql-server-jit, which installs the
package by default, but can be overridden by config or on the command
line.

- ilmari
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