Re: RC1?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-14T05:00:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I added it to the ports list as OK.  We can deal with fixing the
regression falure independently.


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Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> > > FWIW, gmake check and gmake bigcheck pass on:
> > > FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Feb  3 23:48:56 GMT 2000
> > 
> > > with the expection of:
> > > [snipped]
> > > in the float8 test.
> > 
> > Okay, looks like we need to use float8-fp-exception.out on your
> > platform.  This is a bit surprising since resultmap presently shows
> > 
> > 	float8/i.86-.*-freebsd=float8-small-is-zero
> > 
> > How shall we distinguish your version of freebsd from the ones that
> > need the other comparison file?
> > 
> > 			regards, tom lane
> > 
> 
> Is it necessary, I mean really necessary to distinguish this system? It's quite
> an old installation [that ain't broke so I ain't fixed it] and the difference
> is only the error message. I hadn't even looked to see if there was a better
> expected output file, just accepted it as a normal, acceptable variation in
> the regression tests.
> 
> I don't know anything about how the tests are put together so I'd have to look
> into that before suggesting a way to differentiate my system. Having said that
> wouldn't the 3.3-RELEASE string be sufficient?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nigel J. Andrews
> 
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