seeking help with postgres installation and use

[John McBride]

John McBride wrote:
> 
> As user postgres I try and run the tests:
> 
> $ pwd
> /usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress
> $ time ./pg_regress.sh --schedule=parallel_schedule
> ...
> ====================================================
>  6 of 93 tests failed, 1 of these failures ignored.
> ====================================================

This problem is caused by the postgresql-test rpm. The tests depend on a 
Makefile being present at a higher level, from the source build.

$ pwd
/usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress
$ gmake check
GNUmakefile:16: ../../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory
gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../../src/Makefile.global'.  Stop.

$ chmod +x ./pg_regress.sh

Change/add the following variable set in pg_regress.sh:

bindir=/usr/bin
libdir=/usr/lib/pgsql
pkglibdir=/usr/lib/pgsql
datadir=/var/lib/pgsql
VERSION=7.4.2
host_tuple=
GMAKE=gmake
enable_shared=yes
GCC=yes

$ time ./pg_regress.sh --schedule=parallel_schedule
...
test create_function_1    ... FAILED
...
=======================
  1 of 93 tests failed.
=======================

$ cat ./regression.diffs
*** ./expected/create_function_1.out    Wed Mar 10 13:36:51 2004
--- ./results/create_function_1.out     Sat Oct  2 15:20:50 2004
***************
*** 70,76 ****
   ERROR:  could not access file "nosuchfile": No such file or directory
   CREATE FUNCTION test1 (int) RETURNS int LANGUAGE c
       AS '/usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress/regress.so', 'nosuchsymbol';
! ERROR:  Can't find function nosuchsymbol in file 
/usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress/regress.so

Not sure what this is. The postgresql-test rpm needs some massaging I think.

---
John