Re: Regression tests versus the buildfarm environment

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 08/11/2010 04:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I prefer the change-the-default approach mainly because it wouldn't
>>> require any documentation,
>
>> Yeah. The other advantage is that we would not need to wait until we had
>> got everyone to update their versions of the buildfarm code.
>
> Um.  That's actually a pretty darn strong point, considering how
> slow some buildfarm owners are to update the script :-(

Well, it's a convenient time to get such changes in, now, because
folks are going to need to update their scripts rather soon as a
consequence of the Git migration :-).
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