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| author | Tom Lane | 2004-05-21 05:08:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2004-05-21 05:08:06 +0000 |
| commit | 63bd0db12199c5df043e1dea0f2b574f622b3a4c (patch) | |
| tree | dbafdb6e4541162ad369dbfeca24cbd62aefddcc /doc/src | |
| parent | 260b513fc37b6ed2df51586c487d0832b89d0d70 (diff) | |
Integrate src/timezone library for all platforms. There is more we can
and should do now that we control our own destiny for timezone handling,
but this commit gets the bulk of the picayune diffs in place.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml index 3b2afd45ccf..76d242671bc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.39 2004/03/15 16:11:42 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.40 2004/05/21 05:07:55 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="regress"> <title id="regress-title">Regression Tests</title> @@ -378,20 +378,19 @@ testname/platformpattern=comparisonfilename </para> <para> - For example: some systems using older time zone libraries fail to apply - daylight-saving corrections to dates before 1970, causing - pre-1970 <acronym>PDT</acronym> times to be displayed in <acronym>PST</acronym> instead. This causes a - few differences in the <filename>horology</> regression test. + For example: some systems interpret very small floating-point values + as zero, rather than reporting an underflow error. This causes a + few differences in the <filename>float8</> regression test. Therefore, we provide a variant comparison file, - <filename>horology-no-DST-before-1970.out</filename>, which includes + <filename>float8-small-is-zero.out</filename>, which includes the results to be expected on these systems. To silence the bogus - <quote>failure</quote> message on <systemitem>HPUX</systemitem> platforms, - <filename>resultmap</filename> includes + <quote>failure</quote> message on <systemitem>OpenBSD</systemitem> + platforms, <filename>resultmap</filename> includes <programlisting> -horology/.*-hpux=horology-no-DST-before-1970 +float8/i.86-.*-openbsd=float8-small-is-zero </programlisting> which will trigger on any machine for which the output of - <command>config.guess</command> includes <literal>-hpux</literal>. + <command>config.guess</command> matches <literal>i.86-.*-openbsd</literal>. Other lines in <filename>resultmap</> select the variant comparison file for other platforms where it's appropriate. |