Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions

On 10/25/21 11:05, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> Also, I concur with Andrew's point that we'd really have to have
>> buildfarm support.  However, this might not be as bad as it seems.
>> In principle we might just need to add resurrected branches back to
>> the branches_to_build list.
> Well, we would add them to *some* list, but not to the one used by stock
> BF members -- not only because of the diskspace issue but also because
> of the time to build.  I suggest that we should have a separate
> list-of-branches file that would only be used by BF members especially
> configured to do so; and hopefully we won't allow more than a handful
> animals to do that but rather a well-chosen subset, and also maybe allow
> only GCC rather than try to support other compilers.  (There's no need
> to ensure compilability on any Windows platform, for example.)


Well, we do build with gcc on Windows :-) But yes, maybe we should make
this a more opt-in process.


cheers


andrew

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