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is out of date and can't be used directly.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. > > >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?) > > > > > > > > > > Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (appropriate quotation for > Good friday). I will address HEAD in due course. > > 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend