Re: Heads Up: cirrus-ci is shutting down June 1st

From: "Euler Taveira" <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Michael Paquier" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Heads Up: cirrus-ci is shutting down June 1st
Date: 2026-04-18 02:19:24
Message-ID: a8e80680-c4a6-4125-8500-ab31924f8d85@app.fastmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2026, at 6:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I think running a test promptly after a new patch submission is
> useful, even for small patches. I agree that the periodic re-tests
> for bit-rot could be scaled back a lot.
>

That's my opinion too. This is particularly important for first-time
contributors that may not know about the Postgres development process. For
regular contributors, I expect that they have a CI setup and submit a new
version only after the patch passes CI in its own repository.

I'm not sure about restricting the CI runs to small patches. Although it is a
minority, there are small patches that has a big potential to break things.
Maybe an alternative to small and/or high-frequency patches is to not run them
automatically but have a mechanism to trigger them manually once detected. The
author or even one of the reviewers can trigger it.

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Euler Taveira
EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com/

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