Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project

Hi Tom,

On Jan 10, 2026, at 15:34, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Now that we've more or less reduced the ABI compliance check to a
> regular part of our process, it'd be good if baza were not a single
> point of failure for making that check.

I agree.

> Has the final version of
> the BF client change been published anywhere? How about setup
> instructions for its infrastructure? Ideally you'd get Andrew to
> incorporate all that into the standard release of the BF client.

The PR[1] is pending Andrew’s bandwidth to look it over. But it’s easy to add it to an existing installation. From an earlier post[2]:

> 1. Download the module:
>
> ```sh
> curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MankiratSingh1315/pg-bf-client-code/refs/heads/abi-comp-check/PGBuild/Modules/ABICompCheck.pm
> mv ABICompCheck.pm build-farm-path/PGBuild/Modules/
> ```
>
> 2. Add it to `modules` in `build-farm.conf`, e.g.,
>
> modules => [qw(TestUpgrade ABICompCheck)],
>
> 3. Install the abigail suite; I believe the Debian packages are `abigail-tools` and `libabigail0`
>
> I think that’s it. I use `run_branches.pl --run-all` to test all the current maintenance branches. It does not run against master.

It’s not too bad, since the module is fully-contained in a single .pm file.

> (My immediate ambition is that there ought to be a 32-bit animal
> doing ABI checks too, since the conditions are different than
> on 64-bit.)

That would be cool!

D

[1]: https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/pull/38
[2]: https://postgr.es/m/0C8DBCD6-7D68-4FD6-AE66-12B03AE7671B@justatheory.com