Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improved parallel make support

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-11-16T22:28:43Z

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Improved parallel make support
- 19e231bbdaef 9.1.0 cited

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On mn, 2010-11-15 at 23:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's clear to me that we are very far from having a handle on what
>> it'll really take to run parallel builds safely, and I am therefore
>> now of the opinion that we ought to revert the patch.

> We don't have to revert it, we just have to insert .NOTPARALLEL targets
> into some places that are not properly "parallelized", thus effectively
> restoring the behavior of the old for loop.  I have attached a patch
> that gets make -j 100+ working for me.  Other platforms might need more
> things, perhaps.

If we don't have to revert it entirely, that's of course better.  Please
apply what you've got.

			regards, tom lane