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Re: BUG #19368: f54af9f does not create the correct macro for autotools build

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> — 2025-12-31T16:50:00Z

On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> > The commit f54af9f2679d added a macro HAVE_LIBURING_QUEUE_INIT_MEM that is
> > checked to see if slowdown from memory mappings can be avoided when using
> > io_uring.
> > This HAVE_LIBURING_QUEUE_INIT_MEM is set by Meson build after checking
> > liburing.
> > However, the autotools build seems to set a different macro,
> > HAVE_IO_URING_QUEUE_INIT_MEM, which is never used.
>
> > This means when the server is built with autotools, the slowdown when using
> > io_uring can never be avoided.
>
> This is indeed busted, but I'd argue that the autoconf build has the
> right macro name and meson and the C code are using the wrong one:
>
>   if cc.has_function('io_uring_queue_init_mem',
>       dependencies: liburing, args: test_c_args)
>     cdata.set('HAVE_LIBURING_QUEUE_INIT_MEM', 1)
>   endif
>
> That's clearly not following the "HAVE_function" convention.

Agreed. The attached patch should fix the issue.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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