Re: postgres_fdw vs. force_parallel_mode on ppc

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:07:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > I configured a copy of animal "mandrill" that way and launched a test run.
> > The postgres_fdw suite failed as attached.  A manual "make -C contrib
> > installcheck" fails the same way on a ppc64 GNU/Linux box, but it passes on
> > x86_64 and aarch64.  Since contrib test suites don't recognize TEMP_CONFIG,
> > check-world passes everywhere.
> 
> Hm, is this with or without the ppc-related atomics fix you just found?

Without those.  The ppc64 GNU/Linux configuration used gcc, though, and the
atomics change affects xlC only.  Also, the postgres_fdw behavior does not
appear probabilistic; it failed twenty times in a row.