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Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v12
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
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On 08.09.22 09:42, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Sep-07, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
>> A possible drawback is that the intermediate postgres-full.xml file is
>>> 10MB, but I guess we're past the point where we are worrying about that
>> kind of thing.
> 
> I think we are, but maybe mark it .PRECIOUS?  IIUC that would prevent it
> from being removed if there's a problem in the other recipes.

I don't think .PRECIOUS is the right tool here.  There are existing uses 
of .SECONDARY in doc/src/sgml/Makefile; I integrated my patch there.