Re: fix for windows breakage in regression script

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>What about the Cygwin port --- will it have the same issue? If so what
>>>should we add?
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>>No, Cygwin works OK - still have occasional issues with non-empty
>>tablespaces, but not this issue. The Cygwin environment itself emulates
>>unix sockets, I think that's the reason.
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>Hm --- have you checked it since I changed the script?
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yes. See
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=gibbon&br=HEAD

>port/cygwin.h claims that older versions of Cygwin don't have Unix
>sockets, and there's a hack in pg_config_manual.h that sure looks like
>it will disable HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS on any Cygwin version. I'm inclined
>to think that pg_regress should play it safe and assume no Unix sockets
>on Cygwin.
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Mine is fairly up to date - fairly sure I ran an update in the last
month or so, and it was only installed 6 months ago anyway.

I have no idea how far back you would have to go to be missing unix
sockets. Several years I suspect.

cheers

andrew