Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On 6/16/20 8:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-06-09 09:33, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
>> The difference seems to be MSYS2, it also fails for me if I do not
>> include 'Win32::Symlink' with Perl 5.30.2.
>
> 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.


From src/bin/pg_dump/t/010_dump_connstr.pl:


    if ($^O eq 'msys' && `uname -or` =~ /^[2-9].*Msys/)


cheers


andrew

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