Re: 7.3 failure on platypus

Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
> I don't know if this is yet another one, but happened to rebuild 7.3.12 
> on a FreeBSD 6.0 box today and I notice that it fails float8 regression 
> test (geometry does too but that is marked as ignorable).

7.3 is too old to know that freebsd beyond 4.x doesn't suffer from the
float8-small-is-zero syndrome.

This is only a one-line change in resultmap, so I patched it (please
check that it works now!).  In general, though, this is just another
data point in support of my previous opinion that trying to keep old
branches up-to-date with platforms that are moving targets isn't a very
sane goal.  Why would someone be using an old database on a current
kernel?
        regards, tom lane