Re: RC1?

Nigel J. Andrews <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>

From: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-13T17:04:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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