* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure what to do about this. We could back-patch that
> patch into 9.0 and 9.1, but it's conceivable somebody would squawk about
> planner behavioral changes. The only other idea that seems practical is
> to remove regression test cases that have platform-specific results in
> those branches. Probably that wouldn't result in a real reduction in the
> quality of the test coverage for those branches (we could still execute
> the query, just not EXPLAIN it). But it seems like a pretty ad-hoc
> answer, and the next case might be one that hurts more not to test.
>
> Thoughts?
Have an alternate file for those other cases, rather than remove the
test? The complaint was about one buildfarm member, so hopefully that's
practical and doesn't require a lot of different permutations.
Thanks!
Stephen
