Re: a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-26 Thread James Hunter
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM Robert Haas wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > A very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink. > > If you don't have a fix pretty nearly ready, please revert. > > When we're going to do a r

Re: a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-24 Thread Ilia Evdokimov
Hi, Regarding the patch push, I am not a committer, but perhaps my perspective might be interesting. When I noticed late on Friday evening that the tests had failed, I was quite anxious about the situation, thinking I would need to fix it right away. However, Robert committed the fix before t

Re: a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-23 Thread Jelte Fennema-Nio
This was very painful to read. +1 on making changes. Both for a culture change to require less urgency over the weekend if it's a minor failure, and probably also a tooling change to make this less of a problem in general. On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 at 04:38, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025

Re: a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM Andres Freund wrote: > I'd also say that breaking CI and BF is probably something I'd consider more > urgent, as that could indicate the commit was just generally less well tested. This is possible, but I think we oversell it by quite a lot. It's quite possible for

Re: a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-21 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2025-02-21 20:09:24 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > In the case of my commit today, the failures are the result of a > 2-line regression diff with no functional impact that neither CI nor > any of the 11 reviewers noticed. That just shouldn't be the sort of > thing that results in somebody havi

a very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink

2025-02-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM Tom Lane wrote: > A very significant fraction of the buildfarm is now pink. > If you don't have a fix pretty nearly ready, please revert. When we're going to do a release, you want no commits for at least 24 hours before the release so that we c