Re: To JIT (or not!) in Ubuntu packages - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:11 AM Ben Chobot <bench@silentmedia.com> wrote:
> We've noticed that the Ubuntu postgresql-12 package has --with-llvm
> enabled on x86_64, but not on aarch64. Does anybody know if this was
> intentional, or just an oversight?
>
> For what it's worth, it seems the beta postgresql-14 package for Ubuntu
> still doesn't have --with-llvm.
>
> I'm not sure if this explains why our aarch64 DBs are missing a
> jit_provider GUC variable, but I expect it does explain why
> pg_jit_available() tells me no.

Hmm.  No Ubuntu here and I don't know the answer (CC Christoph).  Can
you show exactly where the package is coming from, what pg_config
outputs.  For what it's worth, it does look like it's enabled in the
Ubuntu aarch64 packages from apt.postgresql.org, according to a quick
look using caveman techniques:

$ curl -sO http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/pool/14/p/postgresql-14/postgresql-14_14~beta3-1.pgdg+1_arm64.deb
$ ar x postgresql-14_14~beta3-1.pgdg+1_arm64.deb
$ tar xf data.tar.xz
$ strings usr/lib/postgresql/14/bin/postgres | grep 'with-llvm'
 '--build=aarch64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr'
'--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'
'--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--localstatedir=/var' '--disable-option-checking'
'--disable-silent-rules' '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu'
'--runstatedir=/run' '--disable-maintainer-mode'
'--disable-dependency-tracking' '--with-icu' '--with-tcl'
'--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-pam' '--with-openssl'
'--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' 'PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3'
'--mandir=/usr/share/postgresql/14/man'
'--docdir=/usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-14'
'--sysconfdir=/etc/postgresql-common' '--datarootdir=/usr/share/'
'--datadir=/usr/share/postgresql/14'
'--bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql/14/bin'
'--libdir=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib/postgresql/'
'--includedir=/usr/include/postgresql/' '--with-extra-version= (Debian
14~beta3-1.pgdg+1)' '--enable-nls' '--enable-thread-safety'
'--enable-tap-tests' '--enable-debug' '--enable-dtrace'
'--enable-cassert' '--disable-rpath' '--with-uuid=e2fs'
'--with-gnu-ld' '--with-lz4' '--with-pgport=5432'
'--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' '--with-llvm'
'LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-11' 'CLANG=/usr/bin/clang-11'
'--with-systemd' '--with-selinux' 'MKDIR_P=/bin/mkdir -p'
'PROVE=/usr/bin/prove' 'TAR=/bin/tar' 'XSLTPROC=xsltproc --nonet'
'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now'
'--with-gssapi' '--with-ldap' 'build_alias=aarch64-linux-gnu'
'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security'
$ find . -name '*jit*.so'
./usr/lib/postgresql/14/lib/llvmjit.so

It's certainly expected to work on this arch, and we have snakefly and
eelpout testing it in the build farm.