On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:00 AM Krunal Bauskar <krunalbauskar@gmail.com> wrote: > 3. Problem with GCC approach is still a lot of distro don't support gcc 9.4 as default. > To use this approach: > * PGSQL will have to roll out its packages using gcc-9.4+ only so that they are compatible with all aarch64 machines > * but this continues to affect all other users who tend to build pgsql using standard distro based compiler. (unless they upgrade compiler).
I think if a user, who runs PostgreSQL on a multicore machine with high-concurrent load, can take care about installing the appropriate package/using the appropriate compiler (especially if we publish explicit instructions for that). In the same way such advanced users tune Linux kernel etc.
BTW, how do you get that required gcc version is 9.4? I've managed to use LSE with gcc 9.3.