Re: 7.3 failure on platypus

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
> 
>>I don't know if this is yet another one, but happened to rebuild 7.3.12 
>>on a FreeBSD 6.0 box today and I notice that it fails float8 regression 
>>test (geometry does too but that is marked as ignorable).
> 
> 
> 7.3 is too old to know that freebsd beyond 4.x doesn't suffer from the
> float8-small-is-zero syndrome.
> 
> This is only a one-line change in resultmap, so I patched it (please
> check that it works now!).

Will do (soon as it appears in anoncvs).

> In general, though, this is just another
> data point in support of my previous opinion that trying to keep old
> branches up-to-date with platforms that are moving targets isn't a very
> sane goal.  Why would someone be using an old database on a current
> kernel?
> 

Sure is!

cheers

Mark