Meson

In the last post we’ve looked into how you can build PostgreSQL with Meson instead of the traditional way using configure/make. The reason for this was a thread on hackers which described the downsides of the traditional approach and explained the advantages of using Meson. Some of the advantages mentioned were the time required for the build, readability of the… 

Last year, around this time, there started a thread on hackers which was about building PostgreSQL with meson. I didn’t know anything about Meson at this time, and don’t know much more right now, but as it seems to be related to build times and times to get test results I though I’ll have a look (there are more, and…