On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:37:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 07:07:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> 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". > > > 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. > > In the past we've never really thought that ABI was more than mildly > solidified until around rc1. On the whole I'd rather wait until after > the branch before starting to check ABI, simply because I don't care > for the idea of adding .abi-compliance-history in the master branch > only to remove it again later. Having said that, it would be good > if we *could* choose to do that, so I still do not like having any > policy decisions about which branches to check hard-wired into the > buildfarm client.
I guess I would like to be _notified_, in some way, of ABI breaks during that period. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
