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Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl vs schemapg.h

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-12-15T23:36:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> Why not fixing that? Reproducible builds are a trend of these days,
>> and what's proposed here is really simple to make PG more compliant
>> with this purpose in mind.
>
> It's not like $0 instead of a hardcoded name in the header actually buys
> us anything afaict.

+1.

I think that reproducible builds are a worthwhile goal, and I welcome
Christoph's continued work on them.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Avoid putting build-location-dependent strings into generated files.