Re: Request for supported platforms

Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD avienda.nxad.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Oct 28 18:20:14 PST 2002 root(at)avienda(dot)nxad(dot)com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELLAPTOP i386

> Looks like the only problem on beta3 is that the geometry bits are
> failing, but I'm not 100% if they haven't already been solved. -sc

Hmm. Evidently you now have support for minus-zero. It looks like we
have an updated comparison file for that case for FreeBSD, but it's only
being applied for FreeBSD 4.7:

geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd4.7=geometry-bsd-precision
geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros-bsd
geometry/alpha.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros

Or at least it's *trying* to apply it for 4.7 --- as near as I can tell
without testing, the above scrap of resultmap code is wrong because both
of the i.86 lines will match on FreeBSD 4.7, and I think the pg_regress
coding will take the last match. Larry, did you actually test the
CVS-tip resultmap to make sure it picks the right comparison file on
your box?

We could possibly do

geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros-bsd
geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd4.7=geometry-bsd-precision
geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd5=geometry-bsd-precision
geometry/alpha.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros

which is mighty ugly, but I'm hopeful that by the next PG release we'll
have gotten rid of most of the platform-to-platform geometry variants
anyway.

regards, tom lane