Re: Vendor LLVM 4.0.

From: Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Vendor LLVM 4.0.
Date: 2017-04-02 01:28:11
Message-ID: 1635340.QWjdDStWVS@coyote
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On Saturday, April 1, 2017 3:01:18 PM EDT Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-04-01 10:21:27 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > > For the upcoming JIT support LLVM is required. To avoid issues with
> > > having to support multiple LLVM versions, add a vendored version of
> > > LLVM.
> > >
> > > The large size of LLVM makes this not great, but I think it's better
> > > than the alternatives. And I'll forever have the most lines added to
> > > postgres.
> > >
> > > Author: Andres Freund
> > > Discussion:
> > > http://postgr.es/m/20161206034955.bh33paeralxbtluv@alap3.anarazel.de>
> > This commit appears to violate the well-known PostgreSQL community
> > policy against committing the entire LLVM source tree to PostgreSQL.
> > Accordingly, the release management team has voted to revert this
> > commit, all of the other commits that you've ever made, every patch
> > you've ever reviewed or commented on, and all patches which depend on
> > those patches.
>
> Well worth the price. Now I'll never have to fix a bug again.
>
> - Andres

I got my paradigms confused and was looking for the "Like" button.

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