Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin
Date: 2001-12-13 05:57:37
Message-ID: 3C184351.962CA57@fourpalms.org
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> Having heard nothing on the list yet about the reported unsuccessful
> parallel regression tests on Cygwin with 7.2b3, I thought I'd have a play
> myself having found a spare few minutes.

Tom Lane has speculated that some optimizations around our locking code
(which had been redone for 7.2) might be the culprit for problems in
Cygwin as it apparently was for AIX. He has since fixed the problems at
least under AIX.

Could you repeat the test with 7.2b4 (out today??)?.

- Thomas

> System: Windows XP Professional, PIII 850MHz, 512Mb RAM, 32Gb disk
> uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC20 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
> Sequential regression tests pass repeatedly.
> Parallel regression tests appear to fail almost randomly...

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