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Re: is JIT available

Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>

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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-28T12:28:21Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> On Jul 27, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> The general, non-hacker meaning of "jit is enabled" would seem to
> be pretty much what this function is already doing; and for that
> matter, the same can be said for "JIT compilation is available".
> We need something that's less tautological-looking.  Maybe along
> the lines of

My problem was that it says "is enabled", then calls out just one of the conditions for it to be available, but not the other one. Either calling out no conditions, or all of them, would be more clear.

Commits

  1. Doc: Improve documentation for pg_jit_available()