Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Actually, I think we do.  If I want to test against 7.4, ISTM I want
> to test against the last released 7.4 version, not something with
> arbitrary later changes.  Otherwise, what exactly is the point?

1. You're free to check out any commit you like.

2. Nothing I said can reasonably be confused with "let's allow
arbitrary later changes."

> Uh, don't we have that already?  I know you can configure a buildfarm
> animal to force a run at least every-so-often, but it's not required,
> and I don't think it's even the default.

Oh, OK. I wonder how that plays with the buildfarm status page's
desire to drop old results that are more than 30 days old. I guess
you'd just need to force a run at least every 28 days or something.

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Robert Haas
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