<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Platform-specific comparison files</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Regression Tests" HREF="regress.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Test Evaluation" HREF="regress-evaluation.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Client Interfaces" HREF="client-interfaces.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="regress-evaluation.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="regress.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 26. Regression Tests</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="regress.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="client-interfaces.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="REGRESS-PLATFORM" >26.3. Platform-specific comparison files</A ></H1 ><P > Since some of the tests inherently produce platform-specific results, we have provided a way to supply platform-specific result comparison files. Frequently, the same variation applies to multiple platforms; rather than supplying a separate comparison file for every platform, there is a mapping file that defines which comparison file to use. So, to eliminate bogus test <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"failures"</SPAN > for a particular platform, you must choose or make a variant result file, and then add a line to the mapping file, which is <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >src/test/regress/resultmap</TT >. </P ><P > Each line in the mapping file is of the form </P><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >testname/platformpattern=comparisonfilename</PRE ><P> The test name is just the name of the particular regression test module. The platform pattern is a pattern in the style of the Unix tool <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >expr</TT > (that is, a regular expression with an implicit <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >^</TT > anchor at the start). It is matched against the platform name as printed by <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >config.guess</TT > followed by <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >:gcc</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >:cc</TT >, depending on whether you use the GNU compiler or the system's native compiler (on systems where there is a difference). The comparison file name is the name of the substitute result comparison file. </P ><P > For example: some systems interpret very small floating-point values as zero, rather than reporting an underflow error. This causes a few differences in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >float8</TT > regression test. Therefore, we provide a variant comparison file, <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >float8-small-is-zero.out</TT >, which includes the results to be expected on these systems. To silence the bogus <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"failure"</SPAN > message on <SPAN CLASS="SYSTEMITEM" >OpenBSD</SPAN > platforms, <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >resultmap</TT > includes </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >float8/i.86-.*-openbsd=float8-small-is-zero</PRE ><P> which will trigger on any machine for which the output of <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >config.guess</TT > matches <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >i.86-.*-openbsd</TT >. Other lines in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >resultmap</TT > select the variant comparison file for other platforms where it's appropriate. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="regress-evaluation.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="client-interfaces.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Test Evaluation</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="regress.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Client Interfaces</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >