Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch for avoiding duplicate initdb runs during"make check"

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 2 July 2017 at 18:33, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> system("cp -a ...") call in favor of something more portable.
>
> If we're ok with using Perl there's File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy()
> which does exactly that.

This stuff needs to support perl down to 5.8.0, and that's a reason
behind having src/test/perl/RecursiveCopy.pm. So I would suggest just
to use that. cp is not portable on Windows as well, that's a recipe
for non-portable code there.
-- 
Michael