Re: Building PostgreSQL in external directory is broken?

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> writes:
>> Could you give an example of when this can be useful?

> And now I can answer my own question. I can move all shell scripts I
> typically use for the development from the repository and be sure they
> are not going to be deleted by accident (by `git clean`, for
> instance).

FWIW, I gather that the upcoming switch to the meson build system
will result in *requiring* use of outside-the-source-tree builds.

            regards, tom lane