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@@ -171,3 +171,40 @@ self: super: {
   };
 }
 ```
+
+## JIT (Just-In-Time compilation) {#module-services-postgres-jit}
+
+[JIT](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit-reason.html)-support in the PostgreSQL package
+is disabled by default because of the ~300MiB closure-size increase from the LLVM dependency. It
+can be optionally enabled in PostgreSQL with the following config option:
+
+```nix
+{
+  services.postgresql.enableJIT = true;
+}
+```
+
+This makes sure that the [`jit`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-JIT)-setting
+is set to `on` and a PostgreSQL package with JIT enabled is used. Further tweaking of the JIT compiler, e.g. setting a different
+query cost threshold via [`jit_above_cost`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-JIT-ABOVE-COST)
+can be done manually via [`services.postgresql.settings`](#opt-services.postgresql.settings).
+
+The attribute-names of JIT-enabled PostgreSQL packages are suffixed with `_jit`, i.e. for each `pkgs.postgresql`
+(and `pkgs.postgresql_<major>`) in `nixpkgs` there's also a `pkgs.postgresql_jit` (and `pkgs.postgresql_<major>_jit`).
+Alternatively, a JIT-enabled variant can be derived from a given `postgresql` package via `postgresql.withJIT`.
+This is also useful if it's not clear which attribute from `nixpkgs` was originally used (e.g. when working with
+[`config.services.postgresql.package`](#opt-services.postgresql.package) or if the package was modified via an
+overlay) since all modifications are propagated to `withJIT`. I.e.
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {
+  overlays = [
+    (self: super: {
+      postgresql = super.postgresql.overrideAttrs (_: { pname = "foobar"; });
+    })
+  ];
+};
+postgresql.withJIT.pname
+```
+
+evaluates to `"foobar"`.