Re: [stellation-res] Fix for 32077 posted

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:20, Jim Wright - IBM Research wrote:
> I've just applied validated the patch -- good job!
> I will check the modified files into CVS shortly (there are quite a few).
> 
> Note: in preparing to validate the patch yesterday, I found that
> both the current and revised (Bugzilla #33339) test scripts failed
> with the current CVS source image, at the beginning of test 6,
> with a timestamp-related error message.

Don't be baffled. The explanation is simple, if fairly bizzare. 

Postgres has very weak timestamp parsing support. There are a wide range
of places where some subtle property of how a particular date is
formatted will cause error messages. Depending on the date and time
that you run it, certain SQL statements could fail.

This is part of the problem that the patch aimed to fix: the
inconsistent date/time handling was causing several different bizzare
and intermittent bugs.

	-Mark



> 
> Since the revised script worked the day before, on source lacking
> the 32077 fixes, I am somewhat baffled.  Just to be clear, my
> successful test run today used:
> * Current CVS Java source, with 32077 applied
> * Revised test script (CVS ant script + 33339)
> * Revised build script (CVS build-core.xml script + 31589)
> 
> Since I authored patches for 33339 and 31589, I can't verify them myself.
> Could someone please verify them so we can have a buildable, testable
> image in CVS?  Please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> At 02:47 PM 2/20/2003, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> 
> >There's a patch fix for 32077 posted in bugzilla. I'd appreciate it if
> >someone could give it a check. (Any non-committers out there who'd
> >like to start getting involved? The active commit team is quite small
> >at this point, and we could use some help! Feel free to do the audit
> >checks on incoming changes!)
> >
> >         -Mark
> >
> >
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