Re: alpha1 bundled -- please verify

Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at

http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/

Please check that it is sane.

Then, someone please move this to an appropriate place on the FTP server
and make an announcement.

See http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process for process
details.

I'm out for the rest of the day.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/
>
> Please check that it is sane.

I downloaded it and did a make and make check on a machine without all
the packages to build from a source checkout. All 121 tests passed.
Anything else I can do to check sanity? (In particular, it sounds
like docs are a potential issue, but I'm not sure what I should
check.)

-Kevin

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at
> >
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/
> >
> > Please check that it is sane.
>
> I downloaded it and did a make and make check on a machine without all
> the packages to build from a source checkout. All 121 tests passed.
> Anything else I can do to check sanity? (In particular, it sounds
> like docs are a potential issue, but I'm not sure what I should
> check.)

Docs look good -- installed the HTML docs and manpages. The index seems
fine.

One little odd thing about the manpages: the SEE ALSO section of
VACUUM.7 looks like this:

SEE ALSO
vacuumdb, Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
, The Autovacuum Daemon

Strangely, on the text it looks good:

PostgreSQL includes an “autovacuum” facility which can automate routine
vacuum maintenance. For more information about automatic and manual
vacuuming, see Section 23.1, “Routine Vacuuming”, in the documentation.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/
> Please check that it is sane.

It looks like all the derived grammar files have been built with bison
2.4.1, which is not what's on svr1 (unless that's been updated
recently). I'm not sure that this is something to worry about, but
it does mean that people will be testing something that's a bit
different from what an "official" tarball would look like.

Otherwise it looks good from here.

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/
>> Please check that it is sane.
>
> It looks like all the derived grammar files have been built with bison
> 2.4.1, which is not what's on svr1 (unless that's been updated
> recently). I'm not sure that this is something to worry about, but
> it does mean that people will be testing something that's a bit
> different from what an "official" tarball would look like.

correct - svr1 has bison 1.875 and flex 2.5.35 (for the -HEAD builds)
and flex 2.5.4 for the back branches.

Stefan

On ons, 2009-08-19 at 19:11 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at
> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/
> >> Please check that it is sane.
> >
> > It looks like all the derived grammar files have been built with bison
> > 2.4.1, which is not what's on svr1 (unless that's been updated
> > recently). I'm not sure that this is something to worry about, but
> > it does mean that people will be testing something that's a bit
> > different from what an "official" tarball would look like.
>
> correct - svr1 has bison 1.875 and flex 2.5.35 (for the -HEAD builds)
> and flex 2.5.4 for the back branches.

I didn't realize that you had prepared special installations of those.
Will use those next time.

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 19:11 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> correct - svr1 has bison 1.875 and flex 2.5.35 (for the -HEAD builds)
> and flex 2.5.4 for the back branches.

Where? In which directories?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 19:11 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> correct - svr1 has bison 1.875 and flex 2.5.35 (for the -HEAD builds)
>> and flex 2.5.4 for the back branches.
>
> Where? In which directories?

/usr/bin/flex is 2.5.4 and /usr/local/bin/flex is 2.5.35.

Stefan