Re: Extracting cross-version-upgrade knowledge from buildfarm client

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2023-01-18 We 14:32, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I suppose that the reason for not running under $from_source is to
>> avoid corrupting the saved installations with unofficial versions.
>> However, couldn't we skip the "save" step and still run the upgrade
>> tests against whatever we have saved?  (Maybe skip the same-version
>> test, as it's not quite reflecting any real case then.)

> Something like this should do it:
> my $source_tree = $from_source || "$self->{buildroot}/$this_branch/pgsql";

Ah, I didn't understand that $from_source is a path not just a bool.

What do you think about the above questions?  Is this $from_source
exclusion for the reason I guessed, or some other one?

            regards, tom lane