Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Nikhil Sontakke wrote: >> I was wondering why -Os is not used in place of -O2 while compiling the >> Postgres sources with gcc.
> There's no free lunch. In any case, this sort of choice is generally something that ought to be applied at a distro level. If, say, Fedora or Debian chose to use -Os uniformly across all their packages, then there might be a meaningful amount of space saved in the aggregate. As far as I know, though, -Os is not the preferred choice in any distro, which ought to tell you something ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers