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On 26.04.24 21:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Concretely, I'm proposing the attached.  Peter didn't like
> PG_COMMIT_HASH, so I have PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC below, but I'm not
> wedded to that if a better name is proposed.

This seems ok to me, but note that we do have an equivalent 
implementation in meson.  If we don't want to update that in a similar 
way, maybe we should disable it.