On Oct 29, 2025, at 17:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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.
Well that’s pretty easily addressed by adding a configuration for it. Maybe a regex to match branches, defaulting to
itscurrent value[0], `/_STABLE$/`.
D
[0]: https://github.com/MankiratSingh1315/pg-bf-client-code/blob/abi-comp-check/PGBuild/Modules/ABICompCheck.pm#L248
