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Re: [HACKERS] regression test "strings" failure.

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>
Cc: hackers@postgresql.org, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
Date: 1998-02-04T01:27:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> I'm getting the following failure in the "strings" regression test:-

What is the date/time on your snapshot? I ran a fresh build yesterday
from the development tree as of about 980202 15:20UTC. Didn't see the
problem...

                                          - Tom

> ======   strings   ======
> 15c15
> < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(bpchar) does not exist
> ---
> > ERROR:  : function text(bpchar) does not exist
> 17c17
> < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(varchar) does not exist
> ---
> > ERROR:  : function text(varchar) does not exist
>
> This message comes from a call to  func_error() but the 1st arg to the
> call has changed from "func_get_detail" to "".
>
> I can only think this change is deliberate, but why.
>
> All the code is in backend/parser/parse_func.c
>
> Thanks,
> Keith.