Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - Cygwin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@fourpalms.org]
> Sent: 13 December 2001 05:58
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org'
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin
>
>
> > Having heard nothing on the list yet about the reported
> unsuccessful
> > parallel regression tests on Cygwin with 7.2b3, I thought
> I'd have a
> > play myself having found a spare few minutes.
>
> Tom Lane has speculated that some optimizations around our
> locking code (which had been redone for 7.2) might be the
> culprit for problems in Cygwin as it apparently was for AIX.
> He has since fixed the problems at least under AIX.
>
> Could you repeat the test with 7.2b4 (out today??)?.
>
>                     - Thomas

Right, 7.2b4 passes *all* tests both parallel and sequential on Windows 2000
Server.

On XP Pro, and by the sounds of it, any other non-server releases of
Windows, parallel tests will fail randomly due to Winsock backlog limit of 5
on these systems (as pointed out by Jason Tishler and documented in
FAQ_MSWIN).

Regards, Dave.