Re: llvm dependency and space concerns

## Jeremy Schneider (schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com):

> I'm running Postgres in containers, and recently did some analysis of
> the total container sizes. I posted some analysis over on the debian
> packaging mailing list [1] [2]. The TLDR is that LLVM alone makes up
> 33% of a postgres container's bytes (143MB / 434MB) [1].

Does that even matter compared with the size of the database itself?

> I haven't yet looked closely, but my assumption is that the --with-llvm
> flag may not work the same. I'm going to spend some time taking a look,
> but if someone knows off the top of their head and can give me a head
> start that would be appreciated!

Have a look at the RPM packages and how they split off postgresql-llvmjit
there:
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgrpms.git;a=tree;f=rpm/redhat/main/non-common/postgresql-17/main;hb=HEAD

Regards,
Christoph

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