Re: Regression tests failing on abstime due to test date being before 'current' - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Regression tests failing on abstime due to test date being before 'current'
Date
Msg-id 200107160343.f6G3hD204946@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Regression tests failing on abstime due to test date being before 'current'  (Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>)
List pgsql-general
We have fixed this in the current source and the fix will be in 7.2.  We
missed this until it was too late.


> From: expected/abstime.out
>
> SELECT '' AS six, ABSTIME_TBL.*
>    WHERE ABSTIME_TBL.f1 < abstime 'Jun 30, 2001';
>  six |              f1
> -----+------------------------------
>      | Sun Jan 14 03:14:21 1973 PST
>      | Mon May 01 00:30:30 1995 PDT
>      | epoch
>      | current
>      | -infinity
>      | Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PST
> (6 rows)
>
> ---
> In my system current is now after Jun 30 and so doesn't appear. If the test
> passes it's actually a huge problem ;).
>
> Is it necessary to pick dates so close in the "future" when setting up the
> test? How about setting such dates to some date when the next version is
> likely to be out :). Then at least if it fails it's a convenient time to
> ask newbies to upgrade to 7.X or even 8.
>
> It's just a very minor issue, but this has happened before - one release
> had the testdate < Y2K.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
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