On 2024-Jun-12, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 4:13 AM Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > There are two problems with this system, and have been since the get-go.
> > First, owners forget to run the upgrade-personalty.pl script when the
> > upgrade the OS and./or compiler. Second, there is
Thomas Munro writes:
> On second thoughts, perhaps we always want to capture the uname
> version,
+1. Is there any reason not to capture "uname -a"? The
configure-based animals are effectively doing that already.
regards, tom lane
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM Thomas Munro wrote:
> For eg FreeBSD you can also have the kernel out of sync
> with the user space but normally you wouldn't so I think that's good
> enough.
On second thoughts, perhaps we always want to capture the uname
version, which is most likely about the ke
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 4:13 AM Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Way back in 2004 there was discussion of how we wanted to differentiate
> buildfarm animals. We were flying blind to a large extent, as we didn't
> have many similar things to compare to. We settled on {OS-name,
> OS-version, Compiler-name, C
