Re: horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and

From: "Luke Lonergan" <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Match(dot)Grun(at)thomson(dot)com
Subject: Re: horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and
Date: 2006-09-26 16:00:18
Message-ID: 3E37B936B592014B978C4415F90D662D03EA2359@MI8NYCMAIL06.Mi8.com
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I suspect the '-fast' introduced arithmetic associativity transformations that horology is sensitive to. I've seen this in the past.

The solution I used was to mod the Makefile to exclude the sensitive routines from the aggressive optimizations. As I recall, adt.c was the prime culprit.

- Luke

Msg is shrt cuz m on ma treo

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: Zdenek Kotala
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; Tom Lane; Match(dot)Grun(at)thomson(dot)com
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> I tried regression test with Postgres Beta and horology test field. See
> attached log. It appears few month ago - see
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2006-06/msg00004.php
> I used Sun Studio 11 with -fast flag and SPARC platform.

Are you looking for ways to contort Solaris to make PostgreSQL fail?
That doesn't prove much about PostgreSQL, but rather about Solaris.

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Bruce Momjian bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
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