Re: Should io_method=worker remain the default?

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-09-10T16:25:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 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.

Cool.  I committed/back-patched the numeric.c fix to v16 as well.

-- 
nathan



Commits

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

  2. meson: build checksums with extra optimization flags.