Re: Adding CI to our tree

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> This is exactly why I'm not a huge fan of having ci stuff in the tree.
> It supposes that there's one right way to do a build, but in reality,
> different people want and indeed need to use different options for all
> kinds of reasons. That's the whole value of having things like
> configure and pg_config_manual.h. When we start arguing about whether
> or ci builds should use -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES we're inevitably
> into the realm where no choice is objectively better,

Right.  Can we set things up so that it's not too painful to inject
custom build options into a CI build?  I should think that at the
very least one needs to be able to vary the configure switches and
CPPFLAGS/CFLAGS.

            regards, tom lane