Re: pgbench test failing on 14beta1 on Debian/i386

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Subject: Re: pgbench test failing on 14beta1 on Debian/i386
Date: 2021-05-18 23:45:04
Message-ID: 3382819.1621381504@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Forgot to post the actual values:
> r = 2563421694876090368
> r = 2563421694876090365
> Smells a bit like a precision problem in the workings of pg_erand48(),
> but as soon as I saw floating point numbers I closed my laptop and ran
> for the door.

Yup. This test has a touching, but entirely unwarranted, faith in
pg_erand48() producing bit-for-bit the same values everywhere.

regards, tom lane

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