Re: Defaulting to jit=on/off for v11

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-09-15T18:41:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-09-15 14:19:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On September 15, 2018 12:14:07 PM MDT, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Is there more that has to be done than switching the GUC's default
> >> value and adjusting docs?  I could probably make it happen if there's
> >> not any hidden stuff to worry about.
> 
> > No, that should be all.  I'll adapt the llvm animals to force the GUC to on. I think it'd be good to add a paragraph to the release notes, mentioning that it has to be turned on.
> 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Roger, I'll have a go at it.

Thanks!  Just managed to log into the machine hosting my llvm testing
buildfarm animals and set jit=1 for those. So we shouldn't loose too
much coverage.  I'll email the folks that have LLVM enabled in the BF,
to also do so.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Commits

  1. In v11, disable JIT by default (it's still enabled by default in HEAD).