Re: float8 regression test failure in head
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-03-23T04:29:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes: > Attached is a patch for this issue. I've checked with Chris, and this > patch allows the regression tests to pass on his machine. I also > updated float8-exp-three-digits expected file, but I wasn't able to > test these changes (I don't have access to a QNX machine). FWIW, my procedure for handling updates in regression tests that have multiple expected variants is to apply the same diff that occurs on the machines I can test to the variants I can't test. It's possible that this will be wrong, but 99% of the time it's right and it saves followup work. An easy way to apply such changes is to feed a default-format diff output to patch(1): diff test.myplatform.orig test.myplatform | patch patch then bleats about not knowing which file to patch, and you tell it "test.otherplatform". Works every time ... regards, tom lane