Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable

Andrew,

I can set one up a dedicated windows XP system on monday. I also have some w2k systems that can be used.Are there
directions anywhere?

Jim

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:19:25 -0500
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Windows has ordering failures on the join and rules tests - Cygwin has a
> >>failures on the stats test. See buildfarm for details.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The ordering failures seem to be because the recent planner hacking has
> >taken us back to preferring merge joins for these tests, and Windows'
> >version of qsort has bizarre behavior for equal keys.
> >
> >I put an ORDER BY in the rules test. For join, I'm inclined to think
> >that the best bet is to resurrect the join_1.out variant comparison
> >file that we had awhile ago. Unfortunately, what's in the CVS archives
> >is out of date and can't be used directly. Could you send me the actual
> >rules.out you get on Windows to use for a comparison file?
> >
> >
>
> join.out sent off list
>
> >Dunno about the stats failure. It looks like the stats collector just
> >isn't working on Cygwin, but AFAIR no one has touched that code lately.
> >
> >
>
> It's worked before, that's the strange thing. I'll check some more.
>
> >Do these machines fail on HEAD too? (There don't seem to be any active
> >Windows buildfarm machines for HEAD, which is surely ungood. Won't
> >someone step up and put one into the regular rotation?)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (appropriate quotation for
> Good friday). I will address HEAD in due course.
>
> The buildfarm members for both of these are in reality my laptop, which
> doesn't even run Windows all the time, and has lots of other duties
> anyway. We (or rather Josh Berkus and Bruce, at my request) are looking
> for a replacement.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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