Re: pg_upgrade tests vs alter generic changes

On 09/29/2012 01:49 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 09/29/2012 11:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> The recent alter generic tests have broken pg_upgrade testing on
>>> Windows
>>> and probably other non-collation-supporting platforms.
>> Is it still broken after Alvaro added the alternate expected file, and
>> if so why? I don't see a reason that this should be failing only there.
>> I also note that it seems to be passing fine on buildfarm members other
>> than pitta.
>
> Well, that's a very good point. chough is actually the same machine,
> doing an MSVC build. So why would this test pass there? I'll
> investigate a bit more. Here's what the regression diffs look like
> when run from pg_upgrade on pitta:

[hours of digging later]

It turns out that the reason is that we support collations on MSVC but
not on Mingw.

*sigh*

I'll have to put it on my ever lengthening TODO list.

cheers

andrew