Hi,
On 2018-03-15 19:14:09 +0100, Catalin Iacob wrote:
> For RHEL proper, I would guess that PG11 is too late for RHEL8 which,
> according to history, should be coming soon.
Yea.
> For RHEL9 I would really expect RedHat to add llvm and clang to proper
> RHEL and build/run against those, even if they add it only for
> Postgres (like they did for mesa).
By the looks of what's going to come for RHEL8 I think it already
contains a suitable LLVM and clang (i.e. >= 3.9)?
> As far as I know clang does promise gcc compatibility in
> the sense that one can link together .o files compiled with both so I
> expect the combination not to cause issues (assuming the other
> compiler flags affecting binary compatibility are aligned).
Right. But that's not even needed, as we just use plain old C ABI via
dlsym(). Nothing needs to be linked together outside of dlsym(), so I'm
not too concerned about that aspect.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
