Worked fine for me...
% uname -a
SunOS lancelot 5.7 Generic_106541-14 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-4
% ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 bpalmer staff 32860160 Jan 23 16:45
postgresql-snapshot.tar
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... transactions ... ok random ... failed (ignored) portals ... ok
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==================================================75 of 76 tests passed, 1 failed test(s) ignored.
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Frank Joerdens writes:
>
> [randomly varying set of regression tests fail]
>
> > Running the tests on my Linux box gives no failed tests. Must I assume
> > that those failed tests indicate some issue that is is detrimental to
> > the proper functioning of the server on this Solaris installation? Do
> > you want the regression.diffs?
>
> Could you go into src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh and edit around line 162
>
> #case $host_platform in
> # *-*-qnx* | *beos*)
> unix_sockets=no;;
> # *)
> # unix_sockets=yes;;
> #esac
>
> (i.e., ensure that unix_sockets is set to 'no'), and rerun 'make check'.
>
> I have experienced before that Unix sockets will cause random connection
> abortions on Solaris, which will cause the regression tests to fail
> arbitrarily.
>
> > I also tried using the Sun compiler, which didn't work at all.
>
> details on "didn't work" requested...
>
> > now I get scary stuff like:
> >
> > ----------------------- begin scary stuff -----------------------
> > test int2 ... ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "34.5": can't
> > parse ".5"
> > ERROR: pg_atoi: error reading "100000": Result too large
> > ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "asdf": can't parse "asdf"
>
> This is normal. The regression tests sometimes involve intentional
> invalid input.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
>
>
>
b. palmer, bpalmer@crimelabs.net
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