On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:27:53AM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Uh, what exactly is missing from the beta checklist? I read the patch
> > and commit message but don't understand it.
>
> Did you try to use test.sh to upgrade from a prior release ?
>
> Evidently it's frequently forgotten, as evidenced by all the "deferred
> maintenance" I had to do to allow testing the main patch (currently 0003).
>
> See also:
>
> commit 5bab1985dfc25eecf4b098145789955c0b246160
> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Date: Thu Jun 8 13:48:27 2017 -0400
>
> Fix bit-rot in pg_upgrade's test.sh, and improve documentation.
>
> Doing a cross-version upgrade test with test.sh evidently hasn't been
> tested since circa 9.2, because the script lacked case branches for
> old-version servers newer than 9.1. Future-proof that a bit, and
> clean up breakage induced by our recent drop of V0 function call
> protocol (namely that oldstyle_length() isn't in the regression
> suite anymore).
Oh, that is odd. I thought that was regularly run. I have my own test
infrastructure that I run for every major release so I never have run
the built-in one, except for make check-world.
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