Re: One regression failure with 7.4.1 on Debian 3.0r2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: One regression failure with 7.4.1 on Debian 3.0r2
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Msg-id 87oetipjiz.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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In response to One regression failure with 7.4.1 on Debian 3.0r2  (Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk>)
Responses UNSUBSCRIBE  (Ben Clewett <B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com>)
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Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk> writes:
> I have one regression failure on 7.4.1, which does not occur with 7.4
>
> adam@bugsdb$ more src/test/regress/regression.diffs
> *** ./expected/random.out       Thu Feb 13 05:24:04 2003
> --- ./results/random.out        Tue Dec 23 20:19:40 2003
> ***************
> *** 25,31 ****
>     GROUP BY random HAVING count(random) > 1;
>    random | count 
>   --------+-------
> ! (0 rows)
>   
>   SELECT random FROM RANDOM_TBL
>     WHERE random NOT BETWEEN 80 AND 120;
> --- 25,32 ----
>     GROUP BY random HAVING count(random) > 1;
>    random | count 
>   --------+-------
> !     103 |     2
> ! (1 row)
>   
>   SELECT random FROM RANDOM_TBL
>     WHERE random NOT BETWEEN 80 AND 120;

Unless this happens consistently (i.e. if you run the regression tests
20 times, this test fails more than once or twice), don't worry about
it: the 'random' test is mildly non-deterministic.

-Neil



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