Re: pgsql: Add tests for reinit.c

On 3/15/18 11:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>>> Add tests for reinit.c
>
>> BTW, buildfarm member jacana hasn't succeeded at this test once.
>> The failures look like
>
>> ok 1 - init fork in base exists
>> ok 2 - main fork in base exists
>> error running SQL: 'psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR:  directory "/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/tmp_test_wBGG" does not exist'
>> while running 'psql -XAtq -d port=50531 host=127.0.0.1 dbname='postgres' -f - -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1' with sql 'CREATE TABLESPACE ts1 LOCATION '/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/tmp_test_wBGG'' at /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl//PostgresNode.pm line 1246.
>
>> so I hypothesize that there's something wrong with TestLib::tempdir on
>> Windows, but no idea what.
>
> After further staring at that, I think it's some sort of mingw path
> weirdness.  I notice that the initdb output refers to the PGDATA
> directory as
>
> c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/t_014_unlogged_reinit_main_data/pgdata
>
> and then after that we see "pg_ctl start" succeeding with just
>
> /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/t_014_unlogged_reinit_main_data/pgdata
>
> but this isn't working:
>
> /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/tmp_test_esA3
>
> perhaps because it lacks the "c:/mingw/msys/1.0" prefix.
>
> Still no opinion about how to fix it.

I looked around for other examples but the only ones I could find are in
the pg_basebackup tests (010_pg_basebackup.pl), which exclude these
calls for Windows.  I don't have a Windows machine to experiment on.

Michael, any thoughts?