Re: [HACKERS] Current sources?

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Perhaps the real lesson to be learned is that a little more effort
> > should be expended on the regression tests.  I have a couple of
> > suggestions:
> >
> > 1. As far as I've seen there is no documentation on how to create
> >    regression tests.  This should be documented and made as easy as
> >    possible, to encourage people to create tests for missing cases.
> >
> > 2. System variations (roundoff error differences, etc) create spurious
> >    test complaints that make it hard to interpret the results properly.
> >    Can anything be done to clean this up?
>
>     See the expected/int2-FreeBSD.out and similar files...I've done
> what I can with the 'spurious test complaints...
>

Thanks. One question, is there any reason we can't use the intx tests on
all the platforms? I realize that float it another set of problems, but it
seems that int should be be the same?

-dg

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