Re: abi-compliance-check failure due to recent changes to pg_{clear,restore}_{attribute,relation}_stats()

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 07:07:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> > On Oct 17, 2025, at 17:51, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> NO.  The rule is: if there's no such file, do not apply ABI checking.
> >> We are not interested in ABI complaints against master.
> 
> > It only runs against maintenance branches.
> 
> That seems overcomplicated: how does the buildfarm know
> what's a maintenance branch?  I think the rule should be
> just "run ABI checks if the control file exists, else not".
> 
> As an example of why that's better, what if we did decide
> we wanted ABI checks on master?

I assume we would want ABI breakage checks on master between Beta 1 and
the time we branch for the new major release in July.

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