Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > (I seem to recall seeing a similar report once before, but I can't find > it in the archives right now.) I found what I think is the bug I was remembering: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00074.php but unfortunately it's not much help since we never did resolve what

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Christine Desmuke writes: > [postg...@zu ~]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U nobody > psql: [postg...@zu ~]$ Wait a minute ... I just looked closer at your sample there. That shows that psql *is* able to output to stderr, because it was able to print its own name. So we've been barking up the wron

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Christine Desmuke writes: > [postg...@zu ~]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U nobody > psql: [postg...@zu ~]$ > [That is, the expected error from psql about the nonexistent user is > swallowed.] Try the above under strace, and see what it shows happening to the writes to stderr (they should be very

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-07 Thread Christine Desmuke
Alban Hertroys wrote: On 7 Aug 2009, at 4:02, Christine Desmuke wrote: If so, isn't it just the output of stderr getting lost here? What shell are you using? Yes, it looks like stderr is lost. I'm running bash, and there is nothing odd in .bash_profile Any ideas? I have to admit I'm ru

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 7 Aug 2009, at 4:02, Christine Desmuke wrote: If so, isn't it just the output of stderr getting lost here? What shell are you using? Yes, it looks like stderr is lost. I'm running bash, and there is nothing odd in .bash_profile Any ideas? I have to admit I'm running out, this seems

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-06 Thread Christine Desmuke
Alban Hertroys wrote: On 31 Jul 2009, at 3:25, Christine Desmuke wrote: Samples from the regression.diffs: *** ./expected/boolean.out Fri Jun 1 18:40:19 2007 --- ./results/boolean.out Thu Jul 30 19:16:33 2009 *** *** 75,83 (1 row) SELECT ' tru e '::text::boolea

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-06 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 31 Jul 2009, at 3:25, Christine Desmuke wrote: Samples from the regression.diffs: *** ./expected/boolean.out Fri Jun 1 18:40:19 2007 --- ./results/boolean.out Thu Jul 30 19:16:33 2009 *** *** 75,83 (1 row) SELECT ' tru e '::text::boolean AS invalid;-- err

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-08-05 Thread Christine Desmuke
Tom Lane wrote: > Christine Desmuke writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres >>> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty. > >> Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled), but _something_ is preventing pos

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Lane
Christine Desmuke writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres >> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty. > Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled), > but _something_ is preventing postgres (both the existi

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-31 Thread Christine Desmuke
Tom Lane wrote: Christine Desmuke writes: I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check. CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as a warm standby ... It looks in every case like the ERROR (and also HINT lines) lines are causing the failures, but I'

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Christine Desmuke writes: > I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check. > CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as > a warm standby > ... > It looks in every case like the ERROR (and also HINT lines) lines are > causing the failures, but I'm not su

[GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-30 Thread Christine Desmuke
I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check. CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as a warm standby $ eval ./configure `pg_config --configure` $ gmake == All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install. $ gmake check Everything looks ok un