I'd like to add my 2c that, as a user who has to support postgres running on some fairly old systems, changing to a modern build mechanism (with all the resultant dependency hell that it would likely introduce) would be likely to cause me much grief.
At the moment I can still log in to the old RH Shrike box I keep specifically for building for older systems (it does admittedly have a more recent gcc, but even building that was a trial) and build Postgres from source. Unless I've misunderstood I strongly doubt that would still be the case with the changes being discussed here. Geoff On Tue, 1 May 2018 at 17:19, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Hartmut Holzgraefe > <hartmut.holzgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I could probably continue with this brain dump forever, ... > > I found your brain dump an interesting read, and I have to say that it > leaves me rather uninspired about making a change. It sounds to me > like if we change, some things will be better and others will not be > as good. The good news is that if we decide to change, it sounds like > we won't be a lot worse off than we are today. The bad news is that > it doesn't sound like we'll be a lot better off, either. > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > >
