On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:37:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 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.
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