Re: Need guidance on regression.diffs - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 2014/10/29 3:58, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 02:21 AM, Romu Hu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to postgresql.  I ran the regression tests
>> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/regress-run.html> on my
>> postgresql 9.2.8, and 17 of 131 tests failed. Below is the
>> regression.diffs (sorry for pasting such a long file), I have no clue
>> whether these failures can be safely ignored.  Any guidance would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> Did you run this  against the temporary installation as in section
>
> 30.1.1. Running the Tests Against a Temporary Installation
>
> or
>
> 30.1.2. Running the Tests Against an Existing Installation?
>
> In particular if running against an existing installation, is it
> possible you ran against a different version of Postgres then 9.2.8?
>
> This could happen if you have the env variables  PGHOST and PGPORT set
> to another Postgres instance.

I ran the test against an existing installation (redhat enterprise linux
software collection postgresql92).  The postgres server and the tests
are from the same source package.

Thanks
Romu