Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands
Date: 2022-01-23 21:15:17
Message-ID: 1759207.1642972517@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> The most common issues we get are around this issue of virtualized paths
> in the TAP tests. If people followed the rule I suggested upthread, 99%
> of those problems would go away. I realize it's annoying - I've been
> caught by it myself on more than one occasion. Maybe there's a way to
> avoid it, but if there is I'm unaware of it. But I don't think it's in
> any way a good reason to drop msys support.

Well, let's go back to Robert's other suggestion: some actual
documentation of these rules, in the source tree, might help
people to follow them. src/test/perl/README seems like an
appropriate place.

regards, tom lane

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