From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
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Subject: Re: abi-compliance-check failure due to recent changes to
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> On Oct 29, 2025, at 17:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... I still do not like having any
>> policy decisions about which branches to check hard-wired into the
>> buildfarm client.

> Well that=E2=80=99s pretty easily addressed by adding a configuration fo=
r it. Maybe a regex to match branches, defaulting to its current value[0],=
 `/_STABLE$/`.

I'm asking to remove complexity, not add more.  The buildfarm client
should not be checking either branch names or git tags to control
this, when we have a perfectly good convention about the existence
of .abi-compliance-history to control it.

			regards, tom lane