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  1. regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-29T04:39:57Z

    PLEASE NOTE: I'm brand new to PostgreSQL as of today. I've just moved from
    MySQL because it's not stable on NetBSD/Alpha. I don't know enough about
    pgsql to see if these failed test would make it unstable for production.
    
    i start the server like this:
    
    $ postmaster -D /usr/pkg/pgsql/data > /var/pgsql/logfile 2>&1 &
    
    I've seen many messages on the console when doing the regression
    tests. However, none of the warnings, or debug, or status messages went to
    the logfile as it should have. logfile is currently still empty.
    
    
    NetBSD/DEC-Alpha (ELF) 1.5.1_ALPHA
    PostgreSQL 7.0.3
    
    $ uname -a
    NetBSD ns01 1.5.1_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5.1_ALPHA (ALPHA-$Revision: 1.127.2.2
    $) #2: Fri Dec 15 16:45:58
     CST 2000     tom@ns01:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/ns01 alpha
    
    $ grep failed regress.out
    int8 .. failed
    float8 .. failed
    numerology .. failed
    timestamp .. failed
    oidjoins .. failed
    type_sanity .. failed
    opr_sanity .. failed
    horology .. failed
    rules .. failed
    
    int8 and float8 seemed OK. int8 just had numbers with '-' or '+' signs
    instead of the '<' or '>' around numbers. float8 reported same error in a
    different format.
    
    the rest of the test failed pretty bad. see the attachment.
    
  2. Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-12-30T04:20:58Z

    "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > PLEASE NOTE: I'm brand new to PostgreSQL as of today. I've just moved from
    > MySQL because it's not stable on NetBSD/Alpha. I don't know enough about
    > pgsql to see if these failed test would make it unstable for production.
    
    Postgres 7.0.* will not work very well on Alpha unless you apply Ryan
    Kirkpatrick's patch set (I forget the URL offhand, but dig around in our
    archives and you'll find it).  7.1 should be a lot better.  If you'd
    like to help out testing 7.1, please grab current sources from the CVS
    server, or grab a snapshot tarball dated tomorrow or later.
    
    			regards, tom lane
    
    
  3. NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-30T07:42:11Z

    On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
    
    > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:20:58 -0500
    > From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    > To: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
    > Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
    > Subject: Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS? 
    > 
    > "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > > PLEASE NOTE: I'm brand new to PostgreSQL as of today. I've just moved from
    > > MySQL because it's not stable on NetBSD/Alpha. I don't know enough about
    > > pgsql to see if these failed test would make it unstable for production.
    > 
    > Postgres 7.0.* will not work very well on Alpha unless you apply Ryan
    > Kirkpatrick's patch set (I forget the URL offhand, but dig around in our
    > archives and you'll find it).  7.1 should be a lot better.  If you'd
    > like to help out testing 7.1, please grab current sources from the CVS
    > server, or grab a snapshot tarball dated tomorrow or later.
    
    i did just that. i applied the patch that is available at:
    
    http://www.rkirkpat.net/software/#linux-alpha
    
    to my NetBSD/Alpha 1.5.1_ALPHA PostgreSQL 7.0.3 package. compiled with out
    errors. some warnings about casting wrong pointers types etc, but they
    seem harmless.
    
    even though Kirkpatrick said his patch was for the Linux/Alpha, most of
    his modifications weren't so Linux centric as it was Alpha
    centric. consequently, the patch worked out well for NetBSD/Alpha as well.
    
    
    with the above patch, the regression now only failed on 2 tests:
    
    $ grep failed regress.out
    float8 .. failed
    timestamp .. failed
    horology .. failed
    
    float8 did pass, just diff format of the error message. 'timestamp' and
    'horology' not only failed but caused many 'Fatal User Traps' logged in
    newsyslog '/var/log/messages':
    
    <cut>
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd: fatal user trap:
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     trap entry = 0x1 (arithmetic trap)
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a0         = 0x2
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a1         = 0x40000000000
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a2         = 0xffffffffffffffff
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     pc         = 0x1201449f8
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     ra         = 0x120029ca4
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     curproc    = 0xfffffc0023bb6c98
    Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:         pid = 1705, comm = postgres
    </cut>
    
    the 'fatal user trap' errors seem to happen whenever there is a query
    that resulted in SQL error message "ERROR:  floating point exception! The
    last floating point operation either exceeded legal ranges or was a
    divide by zero."
    
    
    for the 'strings' test, it passed but this line in 'strings.sql'
    
    SELECT CAST(f1 AS char(10)) AS "char(text)" FROM TEXT_TBL;
    
    caused these output on the console:
    
    <cut>
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd25 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    cac op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd26 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    cac op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd27 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    cac op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dced pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcee pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcef pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf1 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf2 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf3 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf5 pc=0x12014bd10
    ra=0x12014b
    ce4 op=ldl
    </cut>
    
    (but nothing in '/var/log/messages').
    
    i'm attaching the regression.diffs file. in addition, i'm going to move
    this thread to pgsql-bugs instead of pgsql-general.
    
  4. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-30T23:08:49Z

    On Saft, 30 Dec 2000, Thomas T. Thai wrote:
    
    i grabbed the CVS ball last night and tried to build it. i'm attaching a
    patch that made it possible to build -current on NetBSD/Alpha
    1.5.1_ALPHA. i would appreciate it if you have cvs write access to
    integrate my patch back into the tree.
    
    after install, i did the regression test and it failed in the same way
    that 7.0.3+rkirkpat.patch did as described below (copy of my last post).
    
    > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 01:42:11 -0600 (CST)
    > From: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
    > To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    > Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>,
    >      Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>,
    >      Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com>,
    >      Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@albourne.com>
    > Subject: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed
    >     tests.. SERIOUS?]
    > 
    > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
    > 
    > > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:20:58 -0500
    > > From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    > > To: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
    > > Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
    > > Subject: Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS? 
    > > 
    > > "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > > > PLEASE NOTE: I'm brand new to PostgreSQL as of today. I've just moved from
    > > > MySQL because it's not stable on NetBSD/Alpha. I don't know enough about
    > > > pgsql to see if these failed test would make it unstable for production.
    > > 
    > > Postgres 7.0.* will not work very well on Alpha unless you apply Ryan
    > > Kirkpatrick's patch set (I forget the URL offhand, but dig around in our
    > > archives and you'll find it).  7.1 should be a lot better.  If you'd
    > > like to help out testing 7.1, please grab current sources from the CVS
    > > server, or grab a snapshot tarball dated tomorrow or later.
    > 
    > i did just that. i applied the patch that is available at:
    > 
    > http://www.rkirkpat.net/software/#linux-alpha
    > 
    > to my NetBSD/Alpha 1.5.1_ALPHA PostgreSQL 7.0.3 package. compiled with out
    > errors. some warnings about casting wrong pointers types etc, but they
    > seem harmless.
    > 
    > even though Kirkpatrick said his patch was for the Linux/Alpha, most of
    > his modifications weren't so Linux centric as it was Alpha
    > centric. consequently, the patch worked out well for NetBSD/Alpha as well.
    > 
    > 
    > with the above patch, the regression now only failed on 2 tests:
    > 
    > $ grep failed regress.out
    > float8 .. failed
    > timestamp .. failed
    > horology .. failed
    > 
    > float8 did pass, just diff format of the error message. 'timestamp' and
    > 'horology' not only failed but caused many 'Fatal User Traps' logged in
    > newsyslog '/var/log/messages':
    > 
    > <cut>
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd: fatal user trap:
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     trap entry = 0x1 (arithmetic trap)
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a0         = 0x2
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a1         = 0x40000000000
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     a2         = 0xffffffffffffffff
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     pc         = 0x1201449f8
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     ra         = 0x120029ca4
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:     curproc    = 0xfffffc0023bb6c98
    > Dec 30 01:22:33 ns01 /netbsd:         pid = 1705, comm = postgres
    > </cut>
    > 
    > the 'fatal user trap' errors seem to happen whenever there is a query
    > that resulted in SQL error message "ERROR:  floating point exception! The
    > last floating point operation either exceeded legal ranges or was a
    > divide by zero."
    > 
    > 
    > for the 'strings' test, it passed but this line in 'strings.sql'
    > 
    > SELECT CAST(f1 AS char(10)) AS "char(text)" FROM TEXT_TBL;
    > 
    > caused these output on the console:
    > 
    > <cut>
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd25 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > cac op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd26 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > cac op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dd27 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > cac op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dced pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcee pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcef pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf1 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf2 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf3 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > pid 1684 (postgres): unaligned access: va=0x1a007dcf5 pc=0x12014bd10
    > ra=0x12014b
    > ce4 op=ldl
    > </cut>
    > 
    > (but nothing in '/var/log/messages').
    > 
    > i'm attaching the regression.diffs file. in addition, i'm going to move
    > this thread to pgsql-bugs instead of pgsql-general.
    > 
    
  5. NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch]

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-31T00:39:23Z

    On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Thomas T. Thai wrote:
    
    [...snip mail header...]
    > i grabbed the CVS ball last night and tried to build it. i'm attaching a
    > patch that made it possible to build -current on NetBSD/Alpha
    > 1.5.1_ALPHA. i would appreciate it if you have cvs write access to
    > integrate my patch back into the tree.
    > 
    > after install, i did the regression test and it failed in the same way
    > that 7.0.3+rkirkpat.patch did as described below (copy of my last post).
    
    [...snip regression test outputs...]
    
    i forgot to mention that i wasn't able to do the serial regression test
    because it didn't find the right socket file in /tmp. however the parallel
    test worked (with failed tests). i did run psql to verify that it can talk
    to the running postmaster. serial regression worked in 7.0.3 though.
    
    ### Verify that postmaster is running ###################################
    $ ps axj | grep postmaster
    pgsql  18355     1 18355  3c280    0 I    p0   0:00.04 ./postmaster -D
    /var/pgsql/data (postgres
    
    $ whoami
    pgsql
    
    $ pwd
    /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/test/regress
    
    ### start the serial regression test ####################################
    $ gmake runtest
    gmake -C ../../../contrib/spi REFINT_VERBOSE=1 refint.so autoinc.so
    gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/build/pgsql-current/contrib/spi'
    gmake[1]: `refint.so' is up to date.
    gmake[1]: `autoinc.so' is up to date.
    gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/pgsql-current/contrib/spi'
    /bin/sh ./pg_regress --schedule=./serial_schedule --multibyte=
    (using postmaster on Unix socket, default port)
    ============== dropping database "regression"         ==============
    psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
            Is the postmaster running locally
            and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.0'?
    dropdb: database removal failed
    ============== creating database "regression"         ==============
    psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
            Is the postmaster running locally
            and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.0'?
    createdb: database creation failed
    pg_regress: createdb failed
    
    ### Show that postmaster is still running ###############################
    $ ps axj | grep postmaster
    pgsql  18355     1 18355  3c280    0 I    p0   0:00.04 ./postmaster -D
    /var/pgsql/data (postgres
    
    ### Verify that there is a socket file ##################################
    $ ls -la /tmp | grep PGSQL
    srwxrwxrwx   1 pgsql  wheel     0 Dec 30 18:01 .s.PGSQL.5432
    -rw-------   1 pgsql  wheel    22 Dec 30 18:01 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
    
    ### Verify that postmaster will respond to local clients ################
    $ /usr/local/install/pgsql-current/bin/psql mydb
    Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
    
    Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
           \h for help with SQL commands
           \? for help on internal slash commands
           \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
           \q to quit
    
    mydb=# select version();
                                         version
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PostgreSQL 7.1beta1 on alpha-unknown-netbsdelf1.5.1., compiled by GCC
    egcs-1.1.2
    (1 row)
    
    mydb=#
    
    
    
  6. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch]

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-12-31T01:10:58Z

    "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
    >         Is the postmaster running locally
    >         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.0'?
    
    Hmm, do you have an environment definition for PGPORT?
    
    I notice that pg_regress.sh contains
    
    	export PGPORT
    
    but it doesn't necessarily set any value for PGPORT.  It seems possible
    that some shells may take this as license to invent an empty-string
    value for PGPORT, which would cause libpq to think that port 0 is being
    specified.
    
    My feeling is that libpq ought to ignore an empty-string PGPORT
    environment value, rather than treat it as selecting port 0.
    Comments anyone?
    
    			regards, tom lane
    
    
  7. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch]

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-31T01:57:59Z

    i concure with this.
    
    On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
    
    > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:10:58 -0500
    > From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    > To: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
    > Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>,
    >      Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>,
    >      Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com>,
    >      Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@albourne.com>
    > Subject: Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha
    >     and rkirkpat's patch] 
    > 
    > "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
    > >         Is the postmaster running locally
    > >         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.0'?
    > 
    > Hmm, do you have an environment definition for PGPORT?
    > 
    > I notice that pg_regress.sh contains
    > 
    > 	export PGPORT
    > 
    > but it doesn't necessarily set any value for PGPORT.  It seems possible
    > that some shells may take this as license to invent an empty-string
    > value for PGPORT, which would cause libpq to think that port 0 is being
    > specified.
    > 
    > My feeling is that libpq ought to ignore an empty-string PGPORT
    > environment value, rather than treat it as selecting port 0.
    > Comments anyone?
    > 
    > 			regards, tom lane
    > 
    
    
    
  8. Re: Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch]

    Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> — 2000-12-31T03:23:33Z

    > Hmm, do you have an environment definition for PGPORT?
    > 
    > I notice that pg_regress.sh contains
    > 
    > 	export PGPORT
    > 
    > but it doesn't necessarily set any value for PGPORT.  It seems possible
    > that some shells may take this as license to invent an empty-string
    > value for PGPORT, which would cause libpq to think that port 0 is being
    > specified.
    > 
    > My feeling is that libpq ought to ignore an empty-string PGPORT
    > environment value, rather than treat it as selecting port 0.
    > Comments anyone?
    
    Agreed. I have already committed changes to ignore empty-string pgport
    paramter of PQsetdbLogin(). Same thing should be applied to PGPORT
    environment variable too, I think.
    --
    Tatsuo Ishii
    
    
  9. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-12-31T03:43:51Z

    "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > i grabbed the CVS ball last night and tried to build it. i'm attaching a
    > patch that made it possible to build -current on NetBSD/Alpha
    > 1.5.1_ALPHA.
    
    Partially applied, per comments below.
    
    > after install, i did the regression test and it failed in the same way
    > that 7.0.3+rkirkpat.patch did as described below (copy of my last post).
    
    Hmm, no idea what's going on here.  Could you compile with -g and then
    use gdb to track the reported PC addresses to particular source lines?
    That might give us a clue.
    
    
    --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/backend/main/main.c	Fri Nov 24 21:45:47 2000
    +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/backend/main/main.c	Sat Dec 30 15:06:34 2000
    
    -#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__)
    +#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__NetBSD__)
     #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
     #include "machine/hal_sysinfo.h"
    
    Applied, but I begin to think that we should be testing here for the
    *presence* of a Tru64 symbol, rather than the absence of a bunch of
    other OSes.  Anyone know what would be suitable?
    
    +#include <sys/param.h>
    
    I inserted this conditionally on #if defined(__NetBSD__).  It seems
    a bad idea to risk breaking other ports to fix yours.
    
    --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/include/port/netbsd.h	Sun Oct 29 07:17:34 2000
    +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/include/port/netbsd.h	Sat Dec 30 14:59:06 2000
    
    netbsd.h changes look good, applied.
    
    --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/include/storage/s_lock.h	Fri Dec 29 20:34:56 2000
    +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/include/storage/s_lock.h	Sat Dec 30 14:59:37 2000
    @@ -241,7 +241,17 @@
     #if defined(NEED_NS32K_TAS_ASM)
     #define TAS(lock) tas(lock)
     
    +#if defined(__GNUC__)
    +/*
    + * GCC on the Alpha doesn't appear to handle inlining of assembly with
    + * %0 or %1 properly.  This removes the inlining of the tas (test-and-set)
    + * function, which probably slows things down considerably, but correctness
    + * first!
    + */
    +static int
    +#else
     static __inline__ int
    +#endif
     tas(volatile slock_t *lock)
     {
       register _res;
    
    Uh, why are you altering NS32K code in an Alpha patch?  I did not apply
    this.
    
    			regards, tom lane
    
    
  10. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> — 2000-12-31T04:17:29Z

    On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
    
    [snipped header]
    > "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    > > i grabbed the CVS ball last night and tried to build it. i'm attaching a
    > > patch that made it possible to build -current on NetBSD/Alpha
    > > 1.5.1_ALPHA.
    > 
    > Partially applied, per comments below.
    > 
    > > after install, i did the regression test and it failed in the same way
    > > that 7.0.3+rkirkpat.patch did as described below (copy of my last post).
    > 
    > Hmm, no idea what's going on here.  Could you compile with -g and then
    > use gdb to track the reported PC addresses to particular source lines?
    > That might give us a clue.
    
    will do.
    
    > --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/backend/main/main.c	Fri Nov 24 21:45:47 2000
    > +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/backend/main/main.c	Sat Dec 30 15:06:34 2000
    > 
    > -#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__)
    > +#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__NetBSD__)
    >  #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
    >  #include "machine/hal_sysinfo.h"
    
    > Applied, but I begin to think that we should be testing here for the
    > *presence* of a Tru64 symbol, rather than the absence of a bunch of
    > other OSes.  Anyone know what would be suitable?
    
    i don't know what the symbol might be.
    
    > +#include <sys/param.h>
    > 
    > I inserted this conditionally on #if defined(__NetBSD__).  It seems
    > a bad idea to risk breaking other ports to fix yours.
    
    agreed.
    
    > --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/include/port/netbsd.h	Sun Oct 29 07:17:34 2000
    > +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/include/port/netbsd.h	Sat Dec 30 14:59:06 2000
    > 
    > netbsd.h changes look good, applied.
    > 
    > --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/include/storage/s_lock.h	Fri Dec 29 20:34:56 2000
    > +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/include/storage/s_lock.h	Sat Dec 30 14:59:37 2000
    > @@ -241,7 +241,17 @@
    >  #if defined(NEED_NS32K_TAS_ASM)
    >  #define TAS(lock) tas(lock)
    >  
    > +#if defined(__GNUC__)
    > +/*
    > + * GCC on the Alpha doesn't appear to handle inlining of assembly with
    > + * %0 or %1 properly.  This removes the inlining of the tas (test-and-set)
    > + * function, which probably slows things down considerably, but correctness
    > + * first!
    > + */
    > +static int
    > +#else
    >  static __inline__ int
    > +#endif
    >  tas(volatile slock_t *lock)
    >  {
    >    register _res;
    > 
    > Uh, why are you altering NS32K code in an Alpha patch?  I did not apply
    > this.
    
    cause egcs on NetBSD/Alpha will give lots of error during compile. we
    don't have gcc 2.95.2 on the alpha working yet.
    
    
    
    
  11. Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-12-31T04:21:04Z

    "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
    >> Uh, why are you altering NS32K code in an Alpha patch?  I did not apply
    >> this.
    
    > cause egcs on NetBSD/Alpha will give lots of error during compile. we
    > don't have gcc 2.95.2 on the alpha working yet.
    
    But the proposed diff is inside #if defined(NEED_NS32K_TAS_ASM).
    How can that affect an Alpha compilation at all?
    
    			regards, tom lane
    
    
  12. Re: Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch [was Re: regress failed tests.. SERIOUS?]

    Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> — 2000-12-31T11:18:59Z

    Tom Lane writes:
    
    > --- /usr/local/source/postgresql/pgsql/src/backend/main/main.c	Fri Nov 24 21:45:47 2000
    > +++ /usr/local/build/pgsql-current/src/backend/main/main.c	Sat Dec 30 15:06:34 2000
    >
    > -#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__)
    > +#if defined(__alpha) && !defined(linux) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__NetBSD__)
    >  #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
    >  #include "machine/hal_sysinfo.h"
    >
    > Applied, but I begin to think that we should be testing here for the
    > *presence* of a Tru64 symbol, rather than the absence of a bunch of
    > other OSes.  Anyone know what would be suitable?
    
    __osf__
    
    -- 
    Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/