On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I see several things we could do about this:
>
> 1. Nothing; just say "sorry, we don't promise that the regression tests
> pass with no plan differences on nonstandard configurations". Given that
> --disable-float8-byval has hardly any real-world use, there is not a lot
> of downside to that.
That would make sense to me. It will also be necessary to formalize
what "nonstandard configuration" actually means if we go this way, of
course.
I believe that this is already true with "dynamic_shared_memory_type
== DSM_IMPL_NONE", so that's a second entry for the "nonstandard
configuration" list.
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Peter Geoghegan