Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove too-smart-for-its-own-good optimization of not overwriting

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I think you're dismissing the idea too cavalierly.  If A generates B,
> A is inevitably changed frequently, but the changes to A affect B only
> rarely, this is a good trick.

The only output file that is unlikely to change is schemapg.h, which is
depended on by exactly one .c file.  It's a waste of time to try to
optimize this at all ...
        regards, tom lane