I have already received a patch that modifies the regression tests and
it seems things are working. However, it would be good for you to take
a look. Fortunately, that can be done anytime during beta. Thanks.
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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> We'll be back to work next week and look into code.
>
> Oleg
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Can someone address the intagg issue here, or is the code OK?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Joe Conway and I have just committed some changes in the internal
> > > representation of Postgres arrays: an element-type-OID field is added to
> > > the array header, and alignment calculations are now done the same way
> > > as in ordinary tuple storage, instead of taking shortcuts. I believe
> > > that these changes need to be reflected into the intarray, ltree, and
> > > intagg contrib modules.
> > >
> > > intarray and ltree both seem to be mapping their own declarations onto
> > > arrays using largely-similar code. But while intarray fails its
> > > regression test, I find ltree still passes. So I'm confused about what
> > > that code is really doing and don't want to touch it.
> > >
> > > I tried to fix intagg, but since there is no regression test for it
> > > I'm unsure whether it's okay.
> > >
> > > Could you folks take a look at CVS tip and see what changes are needed,
> > > if any?
> > >
> > > In the longer run, it might be possible to improve these routines to be
> > > array-type-polymorphic using the new features. But with the 7.3 beta
> > > date nearly upon us, I'd counsel first making the existing functionality
> > > work again...
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> > >
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>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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