Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:44:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I'm not sure all browsing setups support tooltips nicely. Any half way modern browser that is not text based should support tool tips. Are we in the business of excluding

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-24 Thread Steven Lembark
Are we in the business of excluding text-based browsers? Or obsolete ones, for that matter? I don't think we would want to be in the business of dealing successfully with every quirk of every browser ever released. Another way to look at it is supporting standards: If graphical browsers

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I'm not sure all browsing setups support tooltips nicely. Any half way modern browser that is not text based should support tool tips. Are we in the business of excluding text-based browsers? Or obsolete ones, for

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are we in the business of excluding text-based browsers? Or obsolete ones, for that matter? I don't think we would want to be in the business of dealing successfully with every quirk of every browser ever released. That's nothing but a straw-man.

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-24 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Can you modify the buildfarm's description of that machine to mention the special malloc debug flags? It'd probably stop me from asking you this question again ;-) hmm - would take somebody with SQL-level access to do this -

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Can you modify the buildfarm's description of that machine to mention the special malloc debug flags? It'd probably stop me from asking you this question again ;-) hmm - would take somebody with SQL-level access to do this - the script to

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera wrote: But maybe it would be nice to have some sort of notes about this buildfarm member text field that contains this information (or other stuff like this is a VM running on bar or this is really the same hardware as animal bar just with configuration baz ?

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I started on it. The problem is that we have very little real estate available on the dashboard to display it. I tried making it available as a tooltip but Tom didn't like that much (in private correspondence), and I didn't get back to doing

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I started on it. The problem is that we have very little real estate available on the dashboard to display it. I tried making it available as a tooltip but Tom didn't like that much (in private correspondence), and I didn't get

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I'm not sure all browsing setups support tooltips nicely. Any half way modern browser that is not text based should support tool tips. Are we in the business of excluding text-based browsers? Or obsolete ones, for that matter?

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:52:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: So I coded this up, and fortunately thought to try it with ecpg's tests before committing: ... test preproc/whenever ... FAILED: test process exited with exit code 1 ... Apparently the exit(1) is intentional in that test. ..

[HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Buildfarm member spoonbill's last four HEAD builds have all failed in the same utterly bizarre way. It looks like about half of the test results files got truncated at random places --- no errors, no nothing, the file just ends early. What's up with that? regards, tom

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Buildfarm member spoonbill's last four HEAD builds have all failed in the same utterly bizarre way. It looks like about half of the test results files got truncated at random places --- no errors, no nothing, the file just ends early. What's up with that? psql is coredumping:

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: psql is coredumping: Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine. Is there anything particularly unusual about datatype sizes or alignment rules on that platform? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: psql is coredumping: Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine. Is there anything particularly unusual about datatype sizes or alignment rules on that platform? hmm well it is a 64bit Sparc box running OpenBSD

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: psql is coredumping: Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine. Is there anything particularly unusual about datatype sizes or alignment rules on that platform? hmm actually - the windows buildfarm

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine. But if i had to guess this more likely caused by the special malloc flags used on spoonbill (FGJPZ) - per your recommendations in: Hah, yeah, that's it. The code was

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: psql is coredumping: BTW, this exposes a pretty nasty omission in pg_regress: it fails to say anything about a nonzero exit code from a psql child process that's running a test. Seems like wait_for_tests() ought to complain about that. Any

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine. But if i had to guess this more likely caused by the special malloc flags used on spoonbill (FGJPZ) - per your recommendations in: Hah, yeah, that's

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Jeremy Drake
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Tom Lane wrote: Does anyone know how to get the child process exit status on Windows? GetExitCodeProcess, if you've got the process handle handy (which I assume you do, since you most likely were calling one of the WaitFor...Object family of functions.

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: BTW, this exposes a pretty nasty omission in pg_regress: it fails to say anything about a nonzero exit code from a psql child process that's running a test. Seems like wait_for_tests() ought to complain about that. Any objections? So I coded this up, and fortunately thought to try

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: We could possibly extend the syntax of regression schedule files to have a way to say what's the expected exit status, but that seems like more work than it's worth. Would it be all right to just remove the test of on error stop mode? What I did for the moment is just make it

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: We could possibly extend the syntax of regression schedule files to have a way to say what's the expected exit status, but that seems like more work than it's worth.  Would it be all right to just remove the test of on error stop mode? Woulnd't it be enough to report the exist

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Woulnd't it be enough to report the exist status if a test fails, instead of requiring a certain exit status for success? What I have it doing is reporting the exit status if not zero, but it's only an annotation on the short-form output; it doesn't

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

2008-05-17 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Woulnd't it be enough to report the exist status if a test fails, instead of requiring a certain exit status for success? What I have it doing is reporting the exit status if not zero, but it's only an annotation