Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-02-13 12:13:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Right. Can we set things up so that it's not too painful to inject
>> custom build options into a CI build?
> What kind of injection are you thinking about?
That's exactly what needs to be decided.
> A patch author can obviously
> just add options in .cirrus.yml. That's something possible now, that was not
> possible with cfbot applying its own .cirrus.yml
Fine, but are committers supposed to keep track of the fact that they
shouldn't commit that part of a patch? I'd prefer something a bit more
out-of-band. I don't know this technology well enough to propose a way.
> I'd like to have things like -fanitize=aligned and
> -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES on by default for CI, primarily for cfbot's
> benefit. Most patch authors won't know about using
> -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES etc, so they won't even think about enabling
> them. We're *really* not doing well on the "timely review" side of things, so
> we at least should not waste time on high latency back-forth for easily
> automatically detectable things.
I don't personally have an objection to either of those; maybe Robert
does.
regards, tom lane
