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 Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Hartmut Holzgraefe
<hartmut.holzgraefe@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.
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