Re: runtest bug and bigcheck problems

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Rick Touchette" <rick.touchette@nwa.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-13T16:06:26Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
"Rick Touchette" <rick.touchette@nwa.com> writes:
> In order to get the runtest regression test to work I had to change line 100
> in regress.sh
>   from:
>      createlang $HOSTLOC plpgsql regression
>   to:
>      createlang -L /home/n33rta/pgsql/lib $HOSTLOC plpgsql regression
>      (I had to specify the lib location)

This is fixed in 7.1.

> Item #2
> Before install the runcheck test worked fine but when I tried the bigcheck
> test it hung.
> that is the test ran fine until the big (whatever) test and never finished
> (4+ hours)

If you got through the regular test then it's highly unlikely that
bigcheck would really fail --- it's simply a repeat of the regular
numeric test with (many) more digit positions.  I think you just didn't
wait long enough.  The big numeric test does take a ridiculously long
time...

			regards, tom lane