Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2020-10-16 02:45:51 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> 2) When do we want to add LLVM 12 support? PG will soon stop compiling >>> against LLVM 12, which will be released in about 6 months. I worked >>> with Lang to make most of the breaking changes in a branch (to be >>> merged in the next few days), but it's possible that there will be a >>> few smaller changes.
>> hmm, how regular are LLVM releases? I mean, what if pg14 ends up being >> released sooner than LLVM12 – would there be a problem? > Pretty unlikely - they're half yearly releases, and come out on a > somewhat regular schedule. They've moved a few weeks but not more. And > even if they did - having a few #ifdefs for LLVM 12 would be ok anyway. Yeah. As long as we're not breaking the ability to build against older LLVM, I can't see a reason not to apply and back-patch these changes. We usually want all supported PG versions to build against newer tool chains, and this seems to fall into that category. regards, tom lane