Re: what's going on with lapwing?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <adunstan@postgresql.org>, pgbuildfarm@rjuju.net
Date: 2025-03-06T17:45:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I don't think that's the way to think about old buildfarm members.
> Sure, nobody is very likely to be putting PG 18 on a Debian 7 box,
> but the odds are much higher that they might have PG 13 on it and
> wish to update to 13.latest.  So what you need to compare OS EOL
> dates to is not current development but our oldest supported branch.

But the work it's creating is mostly because it's still testing
master. If it were only testing a gradually-decreasing set of older
branches, that wouldn't seem weird to me.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. Revert workarounds for -Wmissing-braces false positives on old GCC

  2. Convert sepgsql tests to TAP