Release 17 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client

Release 17 has two main features:

• Modernize the way we do cross-version upgrade tests. Most of the logic for modifying instances to make them suitable for cross version upgrade testing has now been migrated to the Postgres core code in src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/AdjustUpgrade.pm. The new code simply imports this module and leverages its knowledge.
• Support of building with meson. This is only supported on version 16 or later of Postgres, older branches will continue to use the older toolsets. To enable building with meson, there are several new settings, illustrated in the sample configuration file:
  • using_meson this must be set to a true value
  • meson_jobs this controls the degree of parallelism that meson will use
  • meson_test_timeout this is used to multiply the meson test timeout. The default is 3, 0 turns off timeout
  • meson_config This is an array of settings for passing to meson setup. Note that all options need to be explicitly given here - the client disables all auto options. This includes use of zlib and readline, which do not default to on, unlike autoconf setups.

There are also a number of relatively small bug fixes and tweaks (e.g. some improvements in processing typedefs).

The release is available at <https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/releases> or <https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/latest-client.tgz>

Enjoy!

cheers

andrew