Re: PATCH: Unlogged tables re-initialization tests

Hi Thomas,

[Also pulling in Michael for Windows knowledge]

On 3/1/18 12:27 AM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:24 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> These tests were originally included in the exclude unlogged tables
>> patch [1] to provide coverage for the refactoring of reinit.c.
> 
> +# The following tests test symlinks. Windows doesn't have symlinks, so
> +# skip on Windows.
> 
> Could you please explain this a bit more?  I don't see any symlinks
> being used directly in this test.  I do see CREATE TABLESPACE and that
> uses symlink(), but win32_port.h converts that to "junctions",
> apparently the Windows equivalent.  Is there some reason that doesn't
> work with this test?

I copied this pattern from src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl
which indicates that Windows will not support these types of tests.

But your point is well-taken.  No symlinks are used in this test so it
*should* work.

Michael, what do you think?

> If, by any chance, you are talking about whatever dark force prevents
> the "tablespace" regression test from succeeding when run as a user
> with administrative privileges on Windows, then I would *love* to hear
> an explanation for that phenomenon and how to fix it, because it
> currently prevents me from automatically testing all Commitfest
> patches on the appveyor.com Windows build farm.  I know that it passes
> as a non-administrative user.

Sorry, no!

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net