Jim,
that is just execllent! Thank you so much! I assume you mean XP-Pro - I gather that user permissions get in the way on XP-HE.
We can make the one machine do double duty for Windows and Cygwin.
You will need installed:
. cygwin, including whatever it takes to build cygwin postgres
. native perl (ActiveState perl works just fine)
. normal native windows postgres build environment (MSys, Mingw, MSysDTK etc).
After that we'll explore a bit what it takes to automate the buildfarm processes on Windows. You and I can do that offline.
Let's get this going first and then look at W2K.
cheers
andrew
Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 Unfortunately, what's in the CVS archives is out of date and can't be used directly.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.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (appropriate quotation for Good friday). I will address HEAD in due course.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?)
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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