Re: Remove PARTIAL_LINKING?

Hi,

On 2018-01-21 12:43:56 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> We've still some support for building the backend with PARTIAL_LINKING /
> SUBSYS.o instead of the current objfiles.txt approach.
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=9956ddc19164b02dc1925fb389a1af77472eba5e
> 
> Any objections to removing that? Seems that's largely just removing a
> bit of logic from common.mk.
> 
> Note I'm not talking about whatever that aix logic in src/backend is,
> that seems independent except for sharing the SUBSYS.o name.
> 
> 
> I just encountered this while polishing my JIT patch, which has
> *optional* support for building inlinable version of backend
> functions. It'd not be hard to make it work for PARTIAL_LINKING, but I
> kinda don't see the point 10 years later...

And removed.  Note the SUBSYS.o reference from aix appears to be
independent...

- Andres