Announcing Release 18 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client

I have pushed Release 18 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client

In addition to numerous minor tweaks and bug fixes, the following changes
are made:

- many improvements in the collection of log files
- accommodate change in data checksum default in cross version upgrade
testing
- increase default PGCTLTIMEOUT to 180s
- improve "safe" environment set, including all in the build_env
configuration settings
- on script timeout, don't just fail but send the result to the server
(Note: the timeout mechanism doesn't work on Windows, and has been disabled
there)
- set the default timeout to 4 hours.
- remove redundant TestDecoding module
- add a module for running "make dist"
- improve detection of failures when running with meson
- add README files to the set ignored by the sample trigger_exclude
setting.

The release can be downloaded from

https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/releases/tag/REL_18
<https://www.blogger.com/#> or

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads <https://www.blogger.com/#>

Upgrading is highly recommended.

cheers

andrew