RE: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and supported po rts

I just tried this on Debian with glibc 2.0.6 and it works fine. That
is my 6.3 postgresql release outputs 4 hours.

Michael

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From: Thomas G. Lockhart[SMTP:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: Freitag, 13. Februar 1998 17:57
To: Fred.Reimer@ctg.hboc.com; Bruce Momjian
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and
supported ports

Is the ix86/linux "confirmed" port using libc 5 or glibc 2.x (aka
libc6)? As most major distributions are going to release all new
versions with glibc I think it's prudent to test on both "platforms"
independently.

Yes, that is a good point. There is a known bug in the glibc2 math
library which breaks the date/time routines:

select '4 hours'::timespan;
---------
@ 4 hours
(1 row)

comes out instead as
tgl=> select '4 hours'::timespan;
----------------------------
@ 3 hours 59 mins 60.00 secs
(1 row)

Oliver was working on patches. Lost his e-mail message; is Oliver
still
here? I've got a RH5.0 linux system at work now, and the shipped
Postgres
installation has this problem. I'd like to see it fixed...

Bruce, can you add this to the v6.3 ToDo (assuming you agree to take
it
on :)

- Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Frederick W. Reimer [SMTP:Fred.Reimer@ctg.hboc.com]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 12:00 PM
To: Meskes, Michael; hackers@postgreSQL.org;
Fred.Reimer@ctg.hboc.com
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and
supported p

I have a "custom" slackware with at least the following updates:

gcc-2.8.0
glibc-2.0.6

As per the glibc upgrade notes out there on the web, I've cleared
(actually moved) the /usr/include header files before installing
glibc, and have reinstalled some "standard" extra libraries (such as
ncurses) after that.

I get the 3 hours 59 minutes 60.00 seconds.

I also get a bunch of other problems in other tests. Some are just
differences in the error message, but others are actual differences
in the float/double numbers produced. Others don't show an error and
give a number where one "should" have been produced. This is all
vauge now, but I will recompile the latest snapshot and give a
complete update maybe tonight, if not tomorrow.

Could some of the other problems be due to gcc-2.8.0, which I'm not
sure is being used by anyone else for postgress (yet)? Should we
include the compiler used in the porting updates (I think so). For
instance, I like to use gcc on the Sparc/Solaris2.5.1 and HP-UX/10.20
boxes I have because it makes porting things easier between those
boxes and my Linux systems. Isn't it possible that postgres compiles
fine using the vendor-supplied compilers, but would fail on gcc, or
visa versa?

- Fred

I just tried this on Debian with glibc 2.0.6 and it works fine. That
is my 6.3 postgresql release outputs 4 hours.

Michael

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Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH
meskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr.
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SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44

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From: Thomas G. Lockhart[SMTP:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: Freitag, 13. Februar 1998 17:57
To: Fred.Reimer@ctg.hboc.com; Bruce Momjian
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and
supported ports

Is the ix86/linux "confirmed" port using libc 5 or glibc 2.x

(aka

libc6)? As most major distributions are going to release all

new

versions with glibc I think it's prudent to test on both

"platforms"

independently.

Yes, that is a good point. There is a known bug in the glibc2 math
library which breaks the date/time routines:

select '4 hours'::timespan;
---------
@ 4 hours
(1 row)

comes out instead as
tgl=> select '4 hours'::timespan;
----------------------------
@ 3 hours 59 mins 60.00 secs
(1 row)

Oliver was working on patches. Lost his e-mail message; is Oliver
still
here? I've got a RH5.0 linux system at work now, and the shipped
Postgres
installation has this problem. I'd like to see it fixed...

Bruce, can you add this to the v6.3 ToDo (assuming you agree to

take

it
on :)

- Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: The Hermit Hacker [SMTP:scrappy@hub.org]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 5:48 PM
To: Frederick W. Reimer
Cc: Meskes, Michael; hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and
supported p

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Frederick W. Reimer wrote:

Could some of the other problems be due to gcc-2.8.0, which I'm not

I'm using v2.8.0 on the Solaris Sparc tests I do here...but
nothing else yet...