Re: what's going on with lapwing? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I don't think that's the way to think about old buildfarm members.
> Sure, nobody is very likely to be putting PG 18 on a Debian 7 box,
> but the odds are much higher that they might have PG 13 on it and
> wish to update to 13.latest.  So what you need to compare OS EOL
> dates to is not current development but our oldest supported branch.

But the work it's creating is mostly because it's still testing
master. If it were only testing a gradually-decreasing set of older
branches, that wouldn't seem weird to me.

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Robert Haas
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