Re: [HACKERS] Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel

2004-08-12 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Robert, Are you planning to use Intel's C compiler in production? We tried that some time ago and corrupted our database cluster almost instantly (for some reason we have not investigated any further). I highly recommend to do some stress testing to see if everything works nicely. I'd be pleased

Re: [HACKERS] Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel

2004-08-12 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Hans, Robert, Are you planning to use Intel's C compiler in production? We tried that some time ago and corrupted our database cluster almost instantly (for some reason we have not investigated any further). I highly recommend to do some stress testing to see if everything works

[HACKERS] Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel Itanium 2 C compiler

2004-08-10 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear All, I built PG 8.0 beta1 on an Itanium 2 platform using the Intel compilers version 8, and got one real difference in the regression tests that affected int2, int4, union, and numerology. Here's the key difference: horta postgres 177 diff -c int4.out ../expected/ *** int4.out