Обсуждение: pg_regress fails at "point" test

Volker Hetzer (volker.hetzer@fujitsu-siemens.com) reports a bug with a severity of 3
The lower the number the more severe it is.

Short Description
pg_regress fails at "point" test

Long Description
gcc2.95; hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20, postgresql 7.1.2
make check checks the first group all right (tests check out ok and
a process "postgres:" shows up in the process list.
When "make check" displays "parallel group (18 tests):  point lseg"
the "postgres:" process disappears from the process list and
the test does not complete. Or, rather, not until I lose
patience (15min). Incidentally the shell process that make started
keeps running and eats up all the CPU time.

Greetings!
Volker

Sample Code
./configure --prefix=/vol1/scratch/PostgreSQL/7.1.2 --enable-unicode-conversion --enable-multibyte --with-tcl
--without-tk--with-tclconfig=/opt/tcltk/8.3.3/lib --enable-odbc 
#edited ./src/interfaces/libpgtcl/Makefile,
#./src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile and ./src/pl/tcl/Makefile
#to insert -I flag so that tcl.h would be found ("-I/opt/.../include")
make
make check
#(make is gnumake 3.79)

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pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> gcc2.95; hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20, postgresql 7.1.2
> make check checks the first group all right (tests check out ok and
> a process "postgres:" shows up in the process list.
> When "make check" displays "parallel group (18 tests):  point lseg"
> the "postgres:" process disappears from the process list and
> the test does not complete. Or, rather, not until I lose
> patience (15min). Incidentally the shell process that make started
> keeps running and eats up all the CPU time.

Known bug in HPUX's Bourne shell --- evidently it can't cope with so
many children in parallel.  It works if you do

    gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check

or if you run the non-parallel "installcheck".  See FAQ_HPUX.

If I still had a support contract in force with HP, I'd file a bug
report...

            regards, tom lane