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Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system. After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects. We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of the new build system and mature it in tree. This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but building slower). Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only extensions) are not yet addressed. When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism. The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported versions build with meson. Some initial help for postgres developers is at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de |
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| bloomfilter.c | ||
| dshash.c | ||
| hyperloglog.c | ||
| ilist.c | ||
| integerset.c | ||
| knapsack.c | ||
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| pairingheap.c | ||
| rbtree.c | ||
README
This directory contains a general purpose data structures, for use anywhere in the backend: binaryheap.c - a binary heap bipartite_match.c - Hopcroft-Karp maximum cardinality algorithm for bipartite graphs bloomfilter.c - probabilistic, space-efficient set membership testing dshash.c - concurrent hash tables backed by dynamic shared memory areas hyperloglog.c - a streaming cardinality estimator ilist.c - single and double-linked lists integerset.c - a data structure for holding large set of integers knapsack.c - knapsack problem solver pairingheap.c - a pairing heap rbtree.c - a red-black tree stringinfo.c - an extensible string type Aside from the inherent characteristics of the data structures, there are a few practical differences between the binary heap and the pairing heap. The binary heap is fully allocated at creation, and cannot be expanded beyond the allocated size. The pairing heap on the other hand has no inherent maximum size, but the caller needs to allocate each element being stored in the heap, while the binary heap works with plain Datums or pointers. The linked-lists in ilist.c can be embedded directly into other structs, as opposed to the List interface in nodes/pg_list.h.