| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita) |
| Date: | 2007-05-09 12:52:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20070509125220.GB14957@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:40:24AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 13:46 schrieb Dave Page:
> >
> >>Can we rename the test please?
> >>
> >
> >I'm thinking no. Brain-dead systems should produce brain-dead test
> >results.
> >
> >
>
> Not doing this would seem like sheer bloody-mindedness. We have
> workarounds for craziness on many systems. Not providing for this will
> mean that we have to disable the ECPG tests for Vista. I don't see how
> that helps anyone.
Agreed.
> More seriously, we need to get the ECPG regression test rewritten in C,
> as was done for the main line regression tests. Maybe we need to factor
> out some of that into a library so the common code can be used in both
> programs. At any rate, until this is done we can't run the ECPG tests on
> MSVC builds.
IIRC, Joachim has at least started work on that. (Unrelated to vista - ecpg
tests are broken on both mingw and msvc for vista)
//Magnus
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