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Subject: Re: Should io_method=worker remain the default?
From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:11:49 -0700
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On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 10:39 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> My first instinct was to consider this for back-patching, but I see
> that
> you didn't back-patch commit 9af672b.=C2=A0 Is there any technical reason
> we
> shouldn't be back-patching these types of meson build script changes?

I think you are right, I can't see any harm in backporting it, and
arguably it's a bug: it would be annoying to compare performance across
different versions with different build flags.

I backported through 16.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis