Re: Vendor LLVM 4.0.

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