On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 3:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code > release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26 > animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a > release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.
There's also a depressingly large number of animals that still aren't building the REL_11_STABLE branch. Some also have odd gaps in their back-branch coverage. If you don't use run_branches.pl to automate branch selection, please also take the time to check that you are building the right set of branches.
All my animals use run_branches.pl except 'clam', which is a PPC64LE machine. and when we setup this animal we found 9.3 was failing with "error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one". This was discussed in the thread with sub: "Include ppc64le build type for back branches". Therefore, I explicitly run run_build.pl for all branches (I added for REL_11_STABLE as it was missing). Once we disable 9.3 runs, I'll move to using run_branhces.pl on 'clam' as well.
> If this situation doesn't improve I'm going to have to reinstitute the > server filters which will reject very old clients.
While I'd certainly encourage people to update, I'm not sure why that's necessary?