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Re: gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-29T00:14:33Z
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Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:
> On November 28, 2003 12:33 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Whoa.  Try the following test program.  Then send it in to your friendly
>> local BSD hackers ....

> I've been running this code on a pair of FreeBSD (i386) boxen, for some time 
> now, one of which is a 4.8-STABLE, the other is a 5.2-BETA.

Could it be a hardware problem on Marc's box?  Or specific to some other
aspect of that installation (Marc, is pgsql74.hub.org multi-CPU, for
example?)

The failure is definitely quite repeatable on pgsql74.hub.org.  I don't
see it on svr1.postgresql.org, though, which seems to be running almost
the same kernel.

			regards, tom lane