Re: darwin pgsql patches

Peter Bierman <bierman@apple.com> writes:
> In other news, I just (litterally a minute ago) fixed the last issues
> with my port (hurray!), and the regression test passes every test
> except geometry, where the diffs differ in the 15th decimal digit for
> the last coordinate pair. Rounding error somewhere?

Do the results match either of the existing expected-files for powerpc
systems?

> Do the regression tests adequately stress semaphores? Are semephores
> used interprocess? Do the regression tests cause this sort of use to
> be tested?

The parallel format ("make check") provides at least some confidence.
The regress tests don't really exercise IPC very thoroughly though :-(

            regards, tom lane