I have just released version 4.15 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_15.tgz>. It can be downloaded at <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_15.tgz>

Here's what's changed:

 * support the new location for pg_upgrade
 * support running tests of client programs
 * support building, installing and running testmodules
 * use a default ccache directory
 * improve logging when running pg_upgrade tests
 * handle odd location of Python3 regression tests
 * add timestamp to default log_line_prefix
 * make qw() errors in the config file fatal (helps detect errors)
 * minor bug fixes for web script settings.
 * allow for using linked git directories in non-master branches

The last item might need a little explanation. Essentially this can reduce quite dramatically the amount of space required if you are building on more than one branch. Instead of keeping, say, 6 checked out repos for the current six tested branches, we keep one and link all the others to it. This works almost exactly the way git-new-workdir does (I stole the logic from there). This doesn't work in a couple of situations: if you are using Windows or if you are using git-reference. In these cases the new setting is simply ignored.

To enable this new setting in an existing installation, do the following after installing the new release:

 * in your config file, add this setting:
   git_use_workdirs => 1,
 * remove the pgsql directory in each branch directory other than HEAD

Another good thing to do in existing installations would be to add "%m" to the beginning of the log_line_prefix setting in extra_config stanza.

Enjoy!

cheers

andrew



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