Build date for snapshots?

Started by Josh Berkusover 19 years ago8 messages
#1Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com

Folks,

I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure
how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot
instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before
being built. Is there a file somewhere that would carry a timestamp inside
it?

Thanks.

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PostgreSQL @ Sun
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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure
how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot
instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before
being built. Is there a file somewhere that would carry a timestamp inside
it?

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

regards, tom lane

#3Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

Tom,

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like testing
other stuff. And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/, not from CVS.

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PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

#4Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#3)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

Josh Berkus wrote:

Tom,

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like testing
other stuff. And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/, not from CVS.

O.k. but why aren't they submitting pgsql-bugs?

Joshua D. Drake

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#5Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#4)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

Josh,

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like
testing other stuff. And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/,
not from CVS.

O.k. but why aren't they submitting pgsql-bugs?

Believe me, you don't want these people submitting bugs unfiltered by me.
Especially since they can't remember when they grabbed the snapshot.

Seriously, though, it would be an aid to testing if we could add a tag to the
version or README file or something for the pgsql-snapshot that told us build
date. If there is one, I can't find it. When Marc gets done putting out
fires, I'll ask him how difficult that would be.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

#6Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#5)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

Josh Berkus wrote:

Josh,

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like
testing other stuff. And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/,
not from CVS.

O.k. but why aren't they submitting pgsql-bugs?

Believe me, you don't want these people submitting bugs unfiltered by me.
Especially since they can't remember when they grabbed the snapshot.

Heh, o.k. I can definitely respect that :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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#7Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@postgresql.org
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#5)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:

Josh,

Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you
don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
have a process problem you ought to fix.

These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like
testing other stuff. And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/,
not from CVS.

O.k. but why aren't they submitting pgsql-bugs?

Believe me, you don't want these people submitting bugs unfiltered by me.
Especially since they can't remember when they grabbed the snapshot.

Seriously, though, it would be an aid to testing if we could add a tag to the
version or README file or something for the pgsql-snapshot that told us build
date.

How about adding a simple: 'touch snapshotdate' .. in the root directory?
Would that suffice?

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#8Jan de Visser
jdevisser@digitalfairway.com
In reply to: Marc G. Fournier (#7)
Re: Build date for snapshots?

On Thursday 07 September 2006 01:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

How about adding a simple: 'touch snapshotdate' .. in the root directory?
Would that suffice?

I'd say date "+[something]" > snapshotdate

I betcha that people that can't remember trivial things will muck up file
timestamps by copying :)

jan

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