From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Regression tests failing on abstime due to test date being before 'current' |
Date: | 2001-07-16 03:43:13 |
Message-ID: | 200107160343.f6G3hD204946@candle.pha.pa.us |
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We have fixed this in the current source and the fix will be in 7.2. We
missed this until it was too late.
> From: expected/abstime.out
>
> SELECT '' AS six, ABSTIME_TBL.*
> WHERE ABSTIME_TBL.f1 < abstime 'Jun 30, 2001';
> six | f1
> -----+------------------------------
> | Sun Jan 14 03:14:21 1973 PST
> | Mon May 01 00:30:30 1995 PDT
> | epoch
> | current
> | -infinity
> | Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PST
> (6 rows)
>
> ---
> In my system current is now after Jun 30 and so doesn't appear. If the test
> passes it's actually a huge problem ;).
>
> Is it necessary to pick dates so close in the "future" when setting up the
> test? How about setting such dates to some date when the next version is
> likely to be out :). Then at least if it fails it's a convenient time to
> ask newbies to upgrade to 7.X or even 8.
>
> It's just a very minor issue, but this has happened before - one release
> had the testdate < Y2K.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
>
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