Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:51:49 -0800
From: Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-debian@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg18 patch: separate package for llvm/jit
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:02:42 +0100
Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:

> Re: Jeremy Schneider
> > I would like to propose this change for Postgres 18.
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I committed a change to the PG18 packaging that implements that split.
> The new package is called postgresql-18-jit.

wow!! i did not expect this =F0=9F=99=82

> There is more work to do on each of the extension packages currently
> depending on "postgresql-18-jit-llvm (=3D llvmversion)", that needs to
> be converted to "Breaks: postgresql-18-jit-llvm (<< llvmversion)".
> (This is also the reason the jit package is not called like that
> because the version number there is not the PG version number.)
>=20
> This will likely happen when extensions are moved to PG18 in
> September.

i'll take a look and learn a bit more about it.

one question - the commit message says "Closes: #927182" and i'm
curious what that number is a reference to? It doesn't seem to be an
issue or PR that I found on salsa.debian.org but maybe I haven't looked
in the right place yet.


> I'm unsure if the split should be backported to PG 17 and earlier
> since it will affect production systems in some way.

FWIW, i'm not a debian packaging expert but i was assuming this would
not be backported. i don't think we'd want existing installation
scripts to change behavior on a postgres minor update (eg. newly
provisioned servers no longer getting JIT installed by default, when
previously provisioned servers of the same major version have it)

-Jeremy