Andrew, I can confirm that the latest cygwin snapshot (cygwin1-20050328.dll) corrects the stats regression failure.
Jim ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:21:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable > Tom Lane wrote: > > >"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I'm not quite sure what question I should be asking of the Cygwin people. > >>Tom, Can you suggest something? > >> > >> > > > >It sounds to me like the problem is that the backend executing the test > >script is in a tight loop (due to the half-baked implementation of sleep()) > >and for some reason this prevents the stats processes from running --- > >for a far longer period than it by rights ought to. Ask about recent > >changes in process scheduling policy. (I suppose that actually it's > >Windows doing the scheduling, but what we want to know about is cygwin > >changes that might have affected Windows scheduling parameters.) > > > > > > The only answer so far received says: > > Sounds to me like yet another case of > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html > > cheers > > andrew > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]