Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> moa, which is claimed on the buildfarm dashboard to be using gcc but is >>> actually using cc, hits the spinlock problem in 8.0 and 8.1 and the >>> BYTE_ORDER problem in 8

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Also, although moa is actually green for 8.3, it's showing an initdb failure in 8.4 and up ("cache lookup failed for type 0" while processing system_views.sql)

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page writes: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> moa, which is claimed on the buildfarm dashboard to be using gcc but is >> actually using cc, hits the spinlock problem in 8.0 and 8.1 and the >> BYTE_ORDER problem in 8.2. > Per above, moa is configured with --disable-spinl

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page writes: >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Also, although moa is actually green for 8.3, it's showing an initdb >>> failure in 8.4 and up ("cache lookup failed for type 0" while processing >>> system_views.sql).  I'm betting this is some sort of >>> over-aggressive-

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Also, although moa is actually green for 8.3, it's showing an initdb >> failure in 8.4 and up ("cache lookup failed for type 0" while processing >> system_views.sql).  I'm betting this is some

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-31 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > The new buildfarm machines huia and moa aren't doing terribly well > with the older PG branches.  This isn't really those machines' fault; > what I find after a bit of digging is that we just didn't have good > support for 64-bit Solaris until rel

Re: [HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > what I find after a bit of digging is that we just didn't have good > support for 64-bit Solaris until relatively recently. In particular: BTW, just for the record: it's Solaris on 64-bit Intel that's at issue. 64-bit Sparc support goes way back, as evidenced by the fact that protosci

[HACKERS] huia and moa versus old PG branches

2010-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
The new buildfarm machines huia and moa aren't doing terribly well with the older PG branches. This isn't really those machines' fault; what I find after a bit of digging is that we just didn't have good support for 64-bit Solaris until relatively recently. In particular: * There was no 64-bit s