On 01.07.21 22:22, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 7/1/21 3:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 01.07.21 16:47, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/2/21 4:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>>>> I'm inclined to agree with Alvaro that the messages are at best an
>>>>> oddity. Standard Unix practice is to be silent on success.
>>>> We've been steadily moving towards less chatter during builds.
>>>> I'd be good with dropping these messages in HEAD, but doing so
>>>> in the back branches might be inadvisable.
>>
>>> OK, I think on reflection new targets will be cleaner. What I suggest is
>>> the attached, applied to all branches, followed by removal of the four
>>> noise messages in just HEAD.
>>
>> This naming approach is a bit problematic. For example, we have
>> "install-bin" in src/backend/, which is specifically for only
>> installing binaries, not data files etc. (hence the name). Your
>> proposal would confuse this scheme.
>>
>> I think we should also take a step back here and consider: We had
>> "all", which wasn't "all" enough, then we had "world", now we have
>> "world-minus-a-bit", but it's still more than "all". It's like we are
>> trying to prove the continuum hypothesis here.
>>
>> I think we had consensus on the make variable approach, so I'm
>> confused why a different solution was committed and backpatched
>> without discussion.
>
>
> In fact the names and approach were suggested in my email of June 21st.
AFAICT this thread contains no email from June 21st or thereabouts.
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6a421136-d462-b043-a8eb-e75b2861f3df%40dunslane.net
