Re: contrib regression on old versions

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> We only have a couple of buildfarm members reporting on versions older 
> than 7.4. Both are RedHat based systems, and both fail the contrib 
> regression suites.

> I'm inclined to have write these off as not worth fixing, and inhibit 
> contrib regression tests for versions older than 7.4. in the next 
> release of the buildfarm code. And unless we want to fix them maybe we 
> should also say the same for 7.4.

I'm inclined to wonder why people want to run daily tests on dead
branches in the first place ;-)

I don't believe in having the code hide the failures, though.
        regards, tom lane