On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So this patch has been in place for two weeks, the buildfarm has still
> got the measles, and we're entering the January commitfest with a lot
> of other work to get done. I realize that the two weeks were mostly
> holiday time, but it's time to have some urgency about clearing the
> buildfarm failures.
>
> As best I understand, the remaining failures simply arise from
> an unstable regression test case and aren't teaching us anything
> of value. I propose that for the moment, we simply remove the
> failing query from join.sql. We can put it back when there's
> reason to think it will pass everywhere.
I spent a lot of time trying and failing to get the world's slowest 32
bit powerpc emulation to reproduce this. Bleugh. Before we rip that
test out, would you mind checking if this passes repeatedly on gaur or
pademelon?
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Thomas Munro
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