Re: [HACKERS] Report on NetBSD/mac port of Postgres 6.4.2

> Well I got the patch file from Tatsuo Ishii (thanks!!!) which includes the
> NetBSD/m68k fixes by NAKAJIMA Mutsuki (double thanks!!!).  I applied it to
> the postgres 6.4.2 distribution and it mostly worked.
> 
> Caviats:
> 
> 1) It won't compile with kerberos 4 enabled.  Yes, I loaded the secr.tar.gz
> distribution, but there are some serious problems with kerberos on my
> machine so this may not be Postgres' fault.  (Yes I adjusted the various
> names/paths for NetBSD differences.)

Seems kerberos support in PostgreSQL has been broken for quite
sometime.

> 2) The following four regression tests fail:
> geometry
> datetime
> horology
> inet
> 
> Geometry appears superficially to be the usual roundoff problems.  Inet
> looks superficially to me like the MacBSD output may be more correct, but I
> don't know what's going on well enough to be sure.

There is a known bug with inet data type in 6.4.2, that happens on
m68k, PowerPC and Sparc as far as I know. I believe this has been
fixed in current. If you need patches for 6.4.2, please let me know.

> Horology is likely to
> fail due to some obscure dates which are tested, but I haven't verified if
> that's the only problem in this case.
> 
> The datetime failure looks to be serious.  'now'::datetime -
> 'current'::datetime yields more than 200 days!
> 
> If anyone (Tom?) wants an account on a Quadra 840av to investigate the
> problem further let me know.  The apparent speed of the beast is about half
> of my SPARCstation 5 or around 1/4 of a beefed up Ultra 5 so it's fast
> enough not to kill you.  Anyone who can get real work done on an SE/30
> (NAKAJIMA Mutsuki) has my respect for their patience.

I heard from Mutski that he spent more than 6 hours to compile
PostgreSQL on his SE/30:-)
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Tatsuo Ishii