It was Solaris awk. The fix will be in RC1.
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I emailed a few people to try to get some platform reports. What was the
> solution to this problem? It was AWK or something wasn't it? Will Martin
> have to try RC1?
>
> Chris
>
> > > We are trying to get our supported platforms list together, and
> > so far we
> > > have not had any platform reports for NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
> > x86 or some
> > > of the rarer Linux architectures.
> >
> > I've compiled PostgreSQL 7.3b5 on Solaris X86 and I did a 'make check'
> > but it ran only 13 tests. I vaguely remember there were a lot more
> > last time. Let me know if there is something else I need to run.
> >
> > Platform: Solaris 8/X86
> > Compiler: GCC 2.95.3
> >
> > /bin/sh ./pg_regress --temp-install --top-builddir=../../..
> > --schedule=./parallel_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII
> > ============== creating temporary installation ==============
> > ============== initializing database system ==============
> > ============== starting postmaster ==============
> > running on port 65432 with pid 21190
> > ============== creating database "regression" ==============
> > CREATE DATABASE
> > ALTER DATABASE
> > ============== dropping regression test user accounts ==============
> > ============== installing PL/pgSQL ==============
> > ============== running regression test queries ==============
> > parallel group (13 tests): name boolean float4 text char int2
> > int8 varchar int4 oid float8 bit numeric
> > boolean ... ok
> > char ... ok
> > name ... ok
> > varchar ... ok
> > text ... ok
> > int2 ... ok
> > int4 ... ok
> > int8 ... ok
> > oid ... ok
> > float4 ... ok
> > float8 ... ok
> > bit ... ok
> > numeric ... ok
> > ============== shutting down postmaster ==============
> >
> > ======================
> > All 13 tests passed.
> > ======================
> >
> > rm regress.o
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/devel/current/postgresql-7.3b5/src/test/regress'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/devel/current/postgresql-7.3b5/src/test'
> > parkcity$
> >
>
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