Re: PG 8.1 supported platforms list: IRIX is MIA

The 8.1 supported-platforms list is looking pretty good, I think -- we
don't have updates for every single combination of OS and hardware,
but we have updates for every OS and at least one instance of all
supported CPU types.

Except IRIX. There's been no port report since Robert Bruccoleri
confirmed PG 7.4 worked. If we can't get a confirmation of that
I fear we ought to drop it down to the "unsupported" list.
Can anyone test 8.1RC1 on IRIX?

regards, tom lane

tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> The 8.1 supported-platforms list is looking pretty good, I think -- we
> don't have updates for every single combination of OS and hardware,
> but we have updates for every OS and at least one instance of all
> supported CPU types.

Not to pester overly...

AIX 5.3 has had results reported, and entries for doc/FAQ_AIX
submitted; none of that is yet included :-(.
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Chris Browne wrote:
> tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> > The 8.1 supported-platforms list is looking pretty good, I think -- we
> > don't have updates for every single combination of OS and hardware,
> > but we have updates for every OS and at least one instance of all
> > supported CPU types.
>
> Not to pester overly...
>
> AIX 5.3 has had results reported, and entries for doc/FAQ_AIX
> submitted; none of that is yet included :-(.

Done. Sorry for the delay.

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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote
> Can anyone test 8.1RC1 on IRIX?
>

On a separate matter, I did a simple regression (--enable-cassert) of cvs
tip on SunOS 5.8, seems no problem. I found the only thing related in our
document is that "SunOS 4 is not supported in 2001". Shall we add something
in doc?

Regards,
Qingqing

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> The 8.1 supported-platforms list is looking pretty good, I think -- we
> don't have updates for every single combination of OS and hardware,
> but we have updates for every OS and at least one instance of all
> supported CPU types.
>
> Except IRIX. There's been no port report since Robert Bruccoleri
> confirmed PG 7.4 worked. If we can't get a confirmation of that
> I fear we ought to drop it down to the "unsupported" list.
> Can anyone test 8.1RC1 on IRIX?
>

I had a colleague test for me on his IRIX (6.5?) MIPSPRO machine. The
following regression tests fail:

http://treehou.se/~finn/regression.diffs

Gavin

Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I had a colleague test for me on his IRIX (6.5?) MIPSPRO machine. The
> following regression tests fail:
> http://treehou.se/~finn/regression.diffs

Hm, looks like strtod() has some bizarre behavior for input "infinity"
on that machine (NOT just failing to recognize it, but doing something
actively incorrect --- we've seen such bugs on Solaris).

I had a success report from someone else on Friday, so maybe this
problem is confined to specific IRIX versions?

regards, tom lane

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > I had a colleague test for me on his IRIX (6.5?) MIPSPRO machine. The
> > following regression tests fail:
> > http://treehou.se/~finn/regression.diffs
>
> Hm, looks like strtod() has some bizarre behavior for input "infinity"
> on that machine (NOT just failing to recognize it, but doing something
> actively incorrect --- we've seen such bugs on Solaris).
>
> I had a success report from someone else on Friday, so maybe this
> problem is confined to specific IRIX versions?
>

Perhaps. This was version 6.5.28 running on an Octane.

Gavin