Re: Should io_method=worker remain the default?

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-09-09T23:11:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 10:39 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> My first instinct was to consider this for back-patching, but I see
> that
> you didn't back-patch commit 9af672b.  Is there any technical reason
> we
> shouldn't be back-patching these types of meson build script changes?

I think you are right, I can't see any harm in backporting it, and
arguably it's a bug: it would be annoying to compare performance across
different versions with different build flags.

I backported through 16.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis




Commits

  1. meson: Build numeric.c with -ftree-vectorize.

  2. meson: build checksums with extra optimization flags.