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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: many animals are running old clients
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:51:13 -0400
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Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code 
> release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26 
> animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a 
> release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.

There's also a depressingly large number of animals that still aren't
building the REL_11_STABLE branch.  Some also have odd gaps in their
back-branch coverage.  If you don't use run_branches.pl to automate
branch selection, please also take the time to check that you are
building the right set of branches.

> If this situation doesn't improve I'm going to have to reinstitute the 
> server filters which will reject very old clients.

While I'd certainly encourage people to update, I'm not sure why
that's necessary?

			regards, tom lane

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