Make check fails on 8.3.7

I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check.

CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as
a warm standby

$ eval ./configure `pg_config --configure`
$ gmake
== All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
$ gmake check

Everything looks ok until it actually starts the tests:

./pg_regress --temp-install=./tmp_check --top-builddir=../../..
--srcdir=/home/postgres/postgresql-8.3.7/src/test/regress
--temp-port=55432 --schedule=./parallel_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII
--load-language=plpgsql
============== creating temporary installation ==============
============== initializing database system ==============
============== starting postmaster ==============
running on port 55432 with pid 16296
============== creating database "regression" ==============
CREATE DATABASE
ALTER DATABASE
============== installing plpgsql ==============
CREATE LANGUAGE
============== running regression test queries ==============
parallel group (17 tests): boolean char name varchar text int2 int4 oid
float4 uuid float8 txid money bit int8 enum numeric
boolean ... FAILED
char ... FAILED
name ... ok
varchar ... FAILED
text ... FAILED
int2 ... FAILED
int4 ... FAILED
int8 ... FAILED
oid ... FAILED
float4 ... FAILED
float8 ... FAILED
bit ... FAILED
numeric ... FAILED
txid ... FAILED
uuid ... FAILED
enum ... FAILED
money ... ok
test strings ... FAILED
test numerology ... ok
parallel group (18 tests): point lseg box path polygon circle time date
tinterval timetz comments reltime abstime tstypes inet interval
timestamptz timestamp
point ... FAILED
lseg ... FAILED
box ... FAILED
path ... FAILED
polygon ... FAILED
circle ... FAILED
date ... FAILED
time ... FAILED
timetz ... FAILED
timestamp ... FAILED

and so on ... 83 of 114 tests failed.

Samples from the regression.diffs:

*** ./expected/boolean.out Fri Jun 1 18:40:19 2007
--- ./results/boolean.out Thu Jul 30 19:16:33 2009
***************
*** 75,83 ****
(1 row)

SELECT ' tru e '::text::boolean AS invalid; -- error
- ERROR: invalid input syntax for type boolean: " tru e "
SELECT ''::text::boolean AS invalid; -- error
- ERROR: invalid input syntax for type boolean: ""
CREATE TABLE BOOLTBL1 (f1 bool);
INSERT INTO BOOLTBL1 (f1) VALUES (bool 't');
INSERT INTO BOOLTBL1 (f1) VALUES (bool 'True');
--- 75,81 ----
***************
*** 136,142 ****
-- For pre-v6.3 this evaluated to false - thomas 1997-10-23
INSERT INTO BOOLTBL2 (f1)
VALUES (bool 'XXX');
- ERROR: invalid input syntax for type boolean: "XXX"
-- BOOLTBL2 should be full of false's at this point
SELECT '' AS f_4, BOOLTBL2.* FROM BOOLTBL2;
f_4 | f1
--- 134,139 ----

======================================================================

*** ./expected/tablespace.out Thu Jul 30 19:16:15 2009
--- ./results/tablespace.out Thu Jul 30 19:16:58 2009
***************
*** 48,54 ****
ALTER INDEX testschema.anindex SET TABLESPACE testspace;
INSERT INTO testschema.atable VALUES(3); -- ok
INSERT INTO testschema.atable VALUES(1); -- fail (checks index)
- ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "anindex"
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM testschema.atable; -- checks heap
count
-------
--- 48,53 ----
***************
*** 57,69 ****

-- Will fail with bad path
CREATE TABLESPACE badspace LOCATION '/no/such/location';
- ERROR: could not set permissions on directory "/no/such/location": No
such file or directory
-- No such tablespace
CREATE TABLE bar (i int) TABLESPACE nosuchspace;
- ERROR: tablespace "nosuchspace" does not exist
-- Fail, not empty
DROP TABLESPACE testspace;
- ERROR: tablespace "testspace" is not empty
DROP SCHEMA testschema CASCADE;
NOTICE: drop cascades to table testschema.atable
NOTICE: drop cascades to table testschema.asexecute
--- 56,65 ----

It looks in every case like the ERROR (and also HINT lines) lines are
causing the failures, but I'm not sure what setting I messed up to cause
that. What should I be looking for?

Thanks.

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Christine Desmuke
Kansas Historical Society
cdesmuke(at)kshs(dot)org