re: NetBSD "Bad address" failure (was Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing)

2001-04-16 Thread matthew green
yes, this is a bug in netbsd-current that was introduced with about 5 month ago with the new unified buffer cache system. it has been fixed. thanks. From: Chuck Silvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS commit: syssrc Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:37:44 +0300 (EEST) Modu

Re: NetBSD "Bad address" failure (was Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing)

2001-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can verify, that with NetBSD-current on sparc, your test code works > the way you want it to on local disk, but fails (in the way you've > observed), if the target file is on an NFS-mounted file system. FWIW, the test program succeeds (no error)

Re: NetBSD "Bad address" failure (was Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing)

2001-04-14 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think this is indisputably a bug in (some versions of) NetBSD. > > I forgot to mention a possible contributing factor: the files involved > were NFS-mounted, in the case I was looking at. So this may be an NFS > problem more than a NetBSD problem. Any

Re: NetBSD "Bad address" failure (was Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing)

2001-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > I think this is indisputably a bug in (some versions of) NetBSD. If I > can seek past the end of file, read() shouldn't consider it a hard error > to read there --- and in any case, EFAULT isn't a very reasonable error > code to return. Since it seems not to be a widespread problem, I

NetBSD "Bad address" failure (was Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing)

2001-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CREATE INDEX hash_i4_index ON hash_i4_heap USING hash (random int4_ops); > + ERROR: cannot read block 3 of hash_i4_index: Bad address >> >> "Bad address"? That seems pretty bizarre. > This is obviously some

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-08 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
matthew green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i also believe the `Bad address' errors were caused when the test > was run in an NFS mounted directory. You may have something, there. My test run on the VAX was over NFS. I set up NetBSD on a VAX specifically to test PostgreSQL 7.1, but I didn't hav

re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-07 Thread matthew green
> >> CREATE INDEX hash_i4_index ON hash_i4_heap USING hash (random int4_ops); > >> + ERROR: cannot read block 3 of hash_i4_index: Bad address > > "Bad address"? That seems pretty bizarre. This is obviously something that shows up on _some_ NetBSD platforms. The above w

re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-07 Thread matthew green
matthew green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that: > - reltime failed because it just had: > ! psql: Backend startup failed >The postmaster log file should have more info, but a first thought is >that you ran up against

re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-07 Thread matthew green
>> digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that: >> - reltime failed because it just had: >> ! psql: Backend startup failed The postmaster log file should have more info, but a first thought is that you ran up against process or swap-space limitations. The parallel

re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-07 Thread matthew green
>> i will be reinstalling this SS20 with a full installation sometime in >> the next few days. i will re-run the testsuite after this to see if >> that is causing any of the lossage. Please let us know. actually, i had a classic i could test with -- all except horology passe

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> after running `unlimit' (tcsh) before `make check', the only failures i have > are the horology (expected) and the inherit sorted failures, on NetBSD/sparc64. I'll mark both NetBSD/sparc as supported, for both 32 and 64-bit builds. Thanks! - Thomas

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CREATE INDEX hash_i4_index ON hash_i4_heap USING hash (random int4_ops); > + ERROR: cannot read block 3 of hash_i4_index: Bad address >> >> "Bad address"? That seems pretty bizarre. > This is obviously some

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
matthew green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that: > - reltime failed because it just had: > ! psql: Backend startup failed >The postmaster log file should have more info, but a first thought is >that you ran up against process or swap-space

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-05 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> CREATE INDEX hash_i4_index ON hash_i4_heap USING hash (random int4_ops); > >> + ERROR: cannot read block 3 of hash_i4_index: Bad address > > "Bad address"? That seems pretty bizarre. This is obviously something that shows up on _some_ NetBSD platforms

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have suggestions for Mathew? >> for postgresql-7.1RC2.tar.gz, here is my `make check' for NetBSD/sparc64: >> digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that: >> - reltime failed because it just had: >> ! psql: Backend startup failed The pos

Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing]

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Lockhart
(cc'd the -hackers mailing list) Thanks for the reports Matthew. There is a single failure in the NetBSD/sparc64 test due to a problem in the reltime test (or in starting the reltime test). There is a different failure in your NetBSD/sparc test, but since you are not confident about your installa

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing

2001-04-03 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Unreported or problem platforms: > > Linux 2.0.x MIPS 7.0 2000-04-13 (Tatsuo has lost machine) > mklinux PPC750 7.0 2000-04-13, Tatsuo Ishii > NetBSD m68k7.0 2000-04-10 (Henry has lost machine) > NetBSD Sparc 7.0 2000-04-13, Tom I. Helbekkmo > QNX 4.25 x86 7.0 2000-04-

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing (linux 2.4.x)

2001-03-31 Thread Nathan Myers
I just built and tested RC1 on Linux 2.4.2, with glibc-2.2.2 and gcc-2.95.2 on a Debian 2.2+ x86 system. ("+" implying some packages from "unstable".) I configured it --with-perl --with-openssl --with-CXX. It built without errors, but with a few warnings. This one seemed (portably) odd: --

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing (linux 2.4.x)

2001-03-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> I still don't see an entry for Linux 2.4.x My (uncommitted) updates to the real list show 2.4.2 in the comments section. I may remove all mention of versions, since it seems that most released versions of x86 Linux run PostgreSQL successfully. Comments? - Thomas > > Un

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing (linux 2.4.x)

2001-03-30 Thread Mathijs Brands
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:02:35PM +1200, Franck Martin allegedly wrote: > I still don't see an entry for Linux 2.4.x > > Cheers. This should fix that: == All 76 tests passed. == rm regress.o make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/exp/tmp/postgresql-7.1RC1/sr

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing (linux 2.4.x)

2001-03-30 Thread Franck Martin
I still don't see an entry for Linux 2.4.x Cheers. Thomas Lockhart wrote: > Unreported or problem platforms: > > Linux 2.0.x MIPS 7.0 2000-04-13 (Tatsuo has lost machine) > mklinux PPC750 7.0 2000-04-13, Tatsuo Ishii > NetBSD m68k7.0 2000-04-10 (Henry has lost machine) > NetBSD Sp

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing

2001-03-30 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mathijs Brands wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:17:06PM +, Thomas Lockhart allegedly wrote: > > And here are the up-to-date platforms; thanks for the reports: > > > > > Solaris 2.7 Sparc 7.1 2001-03-22, Marc Fournier > > Marc, was this done without unix sockets? nop

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing

2001-03-30 Thread Mathijs Brands
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:17:06PM +, Thomas Lockhart allegedly wrote: > And here are the up-to-date platforms; thanks for the reports: > Solaris 2.7 Sparc 7.1 2001-03-22, Marc Fournier Marc, was this done without unix sockets? Mathijs -- It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's

[HACKERS] Third call for platform testing

2001-03-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
Unreported or problem platforms: Linux 2.0.x MIPS 7.0 2000-04-13 (Tatsuo has lost machine) mklinux PPC750 7.0 2000-04-13, Tatsuo Ishii NetBSD m68k7.0 2000-04-10 (Henry has lost machine) NetBSD Sparc 7.0 2000-04-13, Tom I. Helbekkmo QNX 4.25 x86 7.0 2000-04-01, Dr. Andrea