On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 10:55:53AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 10:41:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> > > If you look at this more closely, creating postgres-full.xml and running
> > > the syntax check perform the same operations, except that the latter
> > > throws away the output. So it seems redundant to build a whole new code
> > > path for this. I think you can make the check target dependent on
> > > postgres-full.xml and be done, kind of like this (starting from
> > > pre-b2922562726):
> >
> > Would it be unreasonable to discard the "check" target altogether?
> > It made sense back in the day when actually building the html docs
> > took many minutes. But I haven't used it in years, so I wonder
> > if anyone else has either.
>
> I run 'make check' on the SGML every time I build the C code.
Uh, more accurately I run:
make --silent postgres.sgml
make --silent check
make check-tabs
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