Re: [HACKERS] regression test results - Linux, cvs

> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:38:41 +0000
> > From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
> > To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] regression test results - Linux, cvs
> >
> > > This is a diff of several regression tests I run on my Linux box
> > > (last cvs):
> >
> > All known problems/features being fixed now.
> >
> > The random test fails occasionally (at random, suprisingly enough :)
> > since I'm doing a statistical test and occasionally the result falls
> > outside the arbitrary limits I set. But I didn't want the limits to be
> > too loose otherwise we might miss truly incorrect results. If you rerun,
> > random is likely to pass.
> >
>
> Yes,
> random test passed ok 1 from 3 tries. I have no time to test its
> randomness :-)
>
> btw, vacuum crash when postmaster starts with -B 1024 option
> seems fixed now !!!! I tried many times 'vacuum analyze' and never
> get problem ! Probably this is a bonus of last fixes :-)

My guess is the catalog changes Tom did fixed it. Vacuum analyze uses
them quite a bit, and buffer cache size could affect which duplicate was
picked.

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