Andrew,
I can confirm that the latest cygwin snapshot (cygwin1-20050328.dll) corrects the stats regression failure.
Jim
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: rurban@x-ray.at, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Sent: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:21:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >
> >
> >>I'm not quite sure what question I should be asking of the Cygwin people.
> >>Tom, Can you suggest something?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It sounds to me like the problem is that the backend executing the test
> >script is in a tight loop (due to the half-baked implementation of sleep())
> >and for some reason this prevents the stats processes from running ---
> >for a far longer period than it by rights ought to. Ask about recent
> >changes in process scheduling policy. (I suppose that actually it's
> >Windows doing the scheduling, but what we want to know about is cygwin
> >changes that might have affected Windows scheduling parameters.)
> >
> >
>
> The only answer so far received says:
>
> Sounds to me like yet another case of
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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