Re: Time to upgrade buildfarm coverage for some EOL'd OSes?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mikael Kjellström <mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)mksoft(dot)nu>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Mikael Kjellström <mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Time to upgrade buildfarm coverage for some EOL'd OSes?
Date: 2021-10-08 16:12:43
Message-ID: 235162.1633709563@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?UTF-8?Q?Mikael_Kjellstr=c3=b6m?= <mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)mksoft(dot)nu> writes:
> Yes, it's getting long in the tooth. I will upgrade the NetBSD 7
> (sidewinder) to 9.2.
> And I will also upgrade loach to 12.x if that's the version that is
> needed the most.
> I will upgrade conchuela to DragonFlyBSD 6.0.
> I will remove the 5.9 (curculio) and upgrade the 6.5 (morepork) to 6.9.

+1 to all of that except retiring curculio. That one has shown us issues
we've not seen on other animals (recent examples at [1][2]), so unless
you're feeling resource-constrained I'd vote for keeping it going.

regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/YPAdf9r5aJbDoHoq@paquier.xyz
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAA4eK1+uW1UGDHDz-HWMHMen76mKP7NJebOTZN4uwbyMjaYVww@mail.gmail.com

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