Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 17:39 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: I couldn't get 2.4.27 to patch with the arm patches, so I downloaded 2.4.25 (with has CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y) and ALL tests passed. OK, that's good enough. At least we found the cause of the problem. Future generations can look in the

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: ARM platform fails the point test see below. For the 7.4 release we got a report for the ARM platform where all tests passed: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-10/msg01212.php So either there are various degrees of ARM

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: ARM platform fails the point test see below. For the 7.4 release we got a report for the ARM platform where all tests passed:

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-hackers pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:18:58 +0100 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: ARM platform fails the point test see below. For the 7.4

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:26:05 +0200 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: ARM platform fails the point test see below. For the 7.4

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:07:14AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: I am using the stock Debian 2.4.27 kernel. Don't know how to change the fp setup. Do you have any instructions for me? It can be changed by configuring and recompiling kernel. I checked the kernel-image-2.4.27-arm package from

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], pgsql-hackers pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:26:05 +0200 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco: ARM

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: For the 7.4 release we got a report for the ARM platform where all tests passed: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-10/msg01212.php Additional info point: (sid)noel ( at ) debussy:~/postgresql-cvs/pgsql$

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:58:03 +0200 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:07:14AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: I am using the stock Debian 2.4.27 kernel. Don't know how to change the fp setup. Do you have any instructions for me? It can be changed

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:21:43AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: I will recompile the kernel and get back to the list Thanks. This way we can be sure it is FP-emulation effect. -- marko ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
--- From: Marko Kreen marko@l-t.ee To: Jim Buttafuoco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED], pgsql-hackers pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:25:20 +0200 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:21:43AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:39:14AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: I couldn't get 2.4.27 to patch with the arm patches, so I downloaded 2.4.25 (with has CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y) and ALL tests passed. So I will file a bug report with Debian. We should also put something in the Postgresql readme

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marko Kreen wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:39:14AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: I couldn't get 2.4.27 to patch with the arm patches, so I downloaded 2.4.25 (with has CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y) and ALL tests passed. So I will file a bug report with Debian. We should also put something in the

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:32:12PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marko Kreen wrote: The question is rather how to handle it in PostgreSQL regression testing: 1) Document the need for NWFPE - which gives standard results. 2) Use FastFPE results on Linux/ARM. 3) Autodetect - ok, that was a

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Tom Lane
Marko Kreen marko@l-t.ee writes: I have not looked at pg_regress much and had not noticed the 'unconditional alternative' feature. I only thought of the resultmap alternative. Unconditionally adding FastFPE results may even be good, so that FastFPE can pass on any platform. No, it would be

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I have noticed an increasing tendency among the buildfarm crew to think that the regression tests should show zero diffs on all platforms no matter what. That is not the design goal. The intent is to tell you about possible problems. If you decide that a particular diff isn't

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:05:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Marko Kreen marko@l-t.ee writes: I have not looked at pg_regress much and had not noticed the 'unconditional alternative' feature. I only thought of the resultmap alternative. Unconditionally adding FastFPE results may even be

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marko Kreen wrote: The unconditional-acceptance thing has to be used with great caution; preferably only for issues that we expect on many platforms (such as locale dependencies). How about the following then: let pg_regress.sh accept multiple choices from resultmap. Good idea. I was

Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 7, 2005, at 4:35, Andrew Dunstan wrote: The buildfarm is a dashboard application - when everything is OK you want it to show all green. If that's not a goal, then some redesign is appropriate. Perhaps buildfarm needs its own test suite, rather than leveraging those in the distribution,

[HACKERS] CSV arm check failure

2005-01-04 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
ARM platform fails the point test see below. parallel group (13 tests): text name char boolean varchar oid int8 int2 float4 int4 float8 bit numeric boolean ... ok char ... ok name ... ok varchar ... ok text