Re: Idea for improving buildfarm robustness

On 09/30/2015 01:18 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>>> Give me source with the change, and I'll put it on a cheap, low-bandwith
>>>> AWS instance and hammer the heck out of it.  That should raise any false
>>>> positives we can expect.
>>> Here's a draft patch against HEAD (looks like it will work on 9.5 or
>>> 9.4 without modifications, too).
>> BTW: in addition to whatever AWS testing Josh has in mind, it'd be good if
>> someone tried it on Windows.  AFAIK, the self-kill() should work in the
>> postmaster on Windows, but that should be checked.  Also, does the set of
>> errnos it checks cover typical deletion cases on Windows?  Try both
>> removal of $PGDATA in toto and removal of just pg_control or just global/.
> Just tested on Windows, and this is working fine for me. It seems to
> me as well that looking only for ENOENT and ENOTDIR is fine (here is
> what I looked at for reference, note the extra EXDEV or STRUNCATE for
> example with MS 2015):
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5814770t.aspx


Incidentally, AWS and Windows are not mutually exclusive. I used an AWS 
Windows instance the other day when I validated the instructions for 
building with Mingw.

cheers

andrew