From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2009-04-12 09:41:52
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Hello, This is to let you know that you should turn off your 2.4 branch testing as the branch is now no longer in need of testing -- it will not be maintained any further. I have modified the normal nightly-* scripts in the branch simply to exit, so in any case, even if you do not turn it off, it should just stop immediately. Some of you are running tests with broken configurations: this typically shows up by huge numbers of "false" failures -- i.e. more than half the tests fail. Please periodically check the ouput, and if your tests are failing in large numbers and other peoples tests are not, please examine the output. Typical reasons for "false" failures: 1. You are running with a host name other than "localhost" and you have not defined that host in your /etc/hosts file (i.e. using the host name as an address causes the DNS lookup to fail). 2. Improper setup of PostgreSQL -- typically this is because you have not defined the proper character encoding format. It should be SQL_ASCII (if I remember right). ... Many thanks for all your help testing. It really has helped me enormously to have testing on so many different machines -- often there are subtle differences, and most regressions run fine, but on some version of some OS on some hardware the regress fails. Because of your testing, I have resolved a good number of such timing/OS/hardware dependent problems. Best regards, Kern |