Re: [PATCH] Fix TAP tests with recent IPC::Run on Windows

On 2026-09-29 Tu 4:20 AM, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 29 Sept 2026 at 02:24, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 12:54:18PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> I think the right way is to have a wrapper function as in the attached, so
>>> instead of calling IPC::Run::run you would call ipc_run ...
>>>
>>> Note that this patch only touches the sites that will actually be affected
>>> by this. If we wanted to be consistent we would replace calls in a further
>>> 23 files.
>> That seems much better in the long-run, thanks. The
>> ipc_run_text_mode() being published in Utils.pm does not seem
>> necessary, though. This is a part that I'm sure could become
>> confusing if we allow code outside of Utils.pm to use it.
> I tested Andrew Dunstan's patch in CI after removing the IPC::Run
> version pin from the Windows tasks. The 035_standby_logical_decoding
> test failed on both the Windows VS and MinGW tasks [1]:
>
> ```
> stderr:
> # die: IPC::Run: timeout on timer #17 at
> C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/IPC/Run.pm line 3361.
> ```
>
> Using ipc_start() in the 035_standby_logical_decoding test fixes the
> failure, and CI now passes [2].
>
> Here are three patches:
> - 0001 is Andrew Dunstan's patch, unchanged.
> - 0002 is a fixup for the 035_standby_logical_decoding test.
> - 0003 removes the IPC::Run version pin from the Windows tasks.
>
> [1] https://github.com/nbyavuz/postgres/actions/runs/36537214540
> [2] https://github.com/nbyavuz/postgres/actions/runs/36537155885

Great, thanks for testing. I agree with Michael. In fact I think we
could just get rid of ipc_run_text_mode altogether and just put the
binary call inline in the only place it's used.

cheers

andrew

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