On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:32:03AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 6/16/20 8:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> MSYS2, which is basically Cygwin, emulates symlinks with junction
>> points, so this happens to work for our purpose. We could therefore
>> enable these tests in that environment, if we could come up with a
>> reliable way to detect it.
Hmm. In this case does perl's -l think that a junction point is
corrently a soft link or not? We have a check based on that in
pg_basebackup's test and -l fails when it sees to a junction point,
forcing us to skip this test.
> From src/bin/pg_dump/t/010_dump_connstr.pl:
>
> if ($^O eq 'msys' && `uname -or` =~ /^[2-9].*Msys/)
Smart. This could become a central variable in TestLib.pm.
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Michael