Re: Missing llvmjit packages in pgdg-11 RHEL6 - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: Missing llvmjit packages in pgdg-11 RHEL6
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Msg-id 20190103095156.GC8340@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to Re: Missing llvmjit packages in pgdg-11 RHEL6  (Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>)
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Re: Devrim Gündüz 2019-01-02 <1e2cd3c7553c26b98aa98500567e34a96b0395a0.camel@gunduz.org>
> The LLVM/CLANG versions in RHEL 6 is not sufficient to build PostgreSQL 11 with
> LLVM support. I'd suggest you to upgrade to RHEL 7, at least.

Fwiw what I did for Debian is to require llvm 6.0.1. Older releases
are supported by PG on paper, but effectively at least that version is
needed or else C++ extensions like PostGIS will explode because C++
exceptions aren't handled cleanly.

(The full story is that 5.x is needed for C++ exceptions, and 7 is
needed non-x32 architectures like ppc64(el).)

Christoph


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