Re: [HACKERS] Testlib.pm vs msys

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 07/24/2017 09:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems like the TAP test should fail every time, if this is a full
>> description.  But maybe it's part of the answer, so it seems worth
>> experimenting in this direction.

> The test that hangs is the only case where we call pg_ctl via
> command_like. If we use other mechanisms such as command_ok that don't
> try to read the output there is no problem.

What I'm on about is that jacana still succeeds entirely, more than half
the time.  If this is a handle-duplication problem, how could it ever
succeed?
        regards, tom lane