Re: [HACKERS] --enable-depend by default (was Re: Patch: fix lock contention for HASHHDR.mutex)

2015-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark writes: > Alternately the buildfarm could be changed to retain earlier builds and use > dependencies to reduce build times. This would have the benefit of > detecting dependency failures. At the expense of a lot more noise, at least > until we Orrin out whatever

Re: [HACKERS] --enable-depend by default (was Re: Patch: fix lock contention for HASHHDR.mutex)

2015-12-30 Thread Andres Freund
On 2015-12-30 11:13:31 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > The buildfarm already made its choice in this area, and that's ccache. > Layering --enable-depend on top of builds that are using ccache is > simply a waste. > > (Admittedly, ccache is gcc-specific, but TTBOTMK so is --enable-depend.) For