Re: Postgresql for cygwin - 3rd

On 24/01/2014 12:56, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 01/24/2014 01:20 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>>> AFAICT the regression is in Cygwin. The buildfarm passes because it's
>>> using an oldish Cygwin release, 1.7.7 rather than the current 1.7.27. I
>>> have brought the regression the athe attention of the Cygwin people in
>>> the past, but without response.
>>
>> which issue ?
>> During my package tests I have only two issues:
>>
>>      tsearch                  ... FAILED
>> and
>>     test: prepared_xacts
>> must be skipped as it never completes
>>
>>
>
> Those two issues need to be fixed. And yes, they are regressions from my
> Cygwin 1.7.7 setup where they pass consistently, just about every day.
> See <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=brolga&br=HEAD>

1.7.7 is 3.5 years hold.
In the mean time we added 64 bit and moved to gcc-4.8.x

> You don't get to choose which regression tests you're going to pass and
> which you're not. Disabling the tests or providing nonsensical results
> files are unacceptable. This is a Cygwin behavior issue and needs to be
> fixed.

Distributing broken binary that crashes after standard rebase, it is 
also not acceptable and it is also worst.
Your farm is not testing this case, I presume.

Until I took over there was NO recent cygwin package at all in
the distribution, so do not complain that my binary is not perfect,
I already know, but for me almost working is better than NOT available 
or BROKEN.

> cheers
>
> andrew

I am available to work on tests regression, but I am not a postgresql
expert so do not expect all the job from my side.

Regards
Marco