Regression test 'abstime' fails.

From: Reinhard Max <max(at)suse(dot)de>
To: <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Regression test 'abstime' fails.
Date: 2001-07-03 11:00:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0107031209550.5084-100000@cramer.suse.de
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Hi,

this test fails newly, because it has "Jun 30, 2001" hard-coded and
assumes this date to be in the future which obviously became false
last Weekend. It took me a lot of time to track it down, because I
suspected everything but the test itself to be the reason ("It can't
be wrong, because last Friday it worked just fine") and therefore
didn't have a thorough look at the sql file first.

Is it possible to generate this date dynamically so that it is
guaranteed to always be in the future? If not, I suggest to set it to
something near infinity.

Furthermore, I suggest to generate regression.diffs with some more
lines of context. I would have helped a lot in this case, if the query
had shown up in the diff's context.

cu
Reinhard

--- expected/abstime.out Thu May 3 19:00:37 2001
+++ results/abstime.out Tue Jul 3 09:53:47 2001
@@ -43,18 +43,17 @@
SELECT '' AS six, ABSTIME_TBL.*
WHERE ABSTIME_TBL.f1 < abstime 'Jun 30, 2001';
six | f1
-----+------------------------------
| Sun Jan 14 03:14:21 1973 PST
| Mon May 01 00:30:30 1995 PDT
| epoch
- | current
| -infinity
| Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PST
-(6 rows)
+(5 rows)

SELECT '' AS six, ABSTIME_TBL.*
WHERE ABSTIME_TBL.f1 > abstime '-infinity';
six | f1
-----+------------------------------
| Sun Jan 14 03:14:21 1973 PST
| Mon May 01 00:30:30 1995 PDT

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