Re: [PATCH] Fix float8 parsing of denormal values (on some platforms?)

On 02/03/2012 03:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marti Raudsepp<marti@juffo.org>  writes:
>> We're already seeing first buildfarm failures, on system "narwhal"
>> using an msys/mingw compiler.
> Yeah.  After a full day's cycle, the answer seems to be that
> denormalized input works fine everywhere except:
>
> 1. mingw on Windows (even though MSVC builds work)
>
> 2. some Gentoo builds fail (knowing that platform, the phase of the moon
> is probably the most predictable factor determining this).
>
> I'm inclined at this point to remove the regression test cases, because
> we have no principled way to deal with case #2.  We could install
> alternative "expected" files that accept the failure, but then what's
> the point of having the test case at all?
>
> It might be worth pressuring the mingw folk to get with the program,
> but I'm not going to be the one to do that.
>
>             

No doubt they would tell us to upgrade the compiler. Narwhal's is 
horribly old. Neither of my mingw-based members is failing.

cheers

andrew