Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Cause TestLib.pm to define $windows_os in all branches.

On 11/17/2015 02:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> In general I think we can be a good deal more liberal about backpatching the
>>> testing regime than we are with production code, where we are always
>>> cautious, and the caution has paid big dividends in our reputation for
>>> stability.
>> Attached are patches for 9.4 and 9.5 syncing up everything with
>> master. I tested both of them on OSX, Linux and Windows (MSVC only
>> though using vcregress tapcheck).
> I'm not in a position to double-check that these patches work on Windows,
> but I reviewed them through the expedient of diff'ing the patched files
> against HEAD. The only problem I found was you'd left out the
> documentation addition about needing IPC::Run in install-windows.sgml.
> So I've pushed them with that fix.
>
> Where do we now stand on invoking the TAP tests in the buildfarm?
>
>

This has fallen off my pile a bit :-( I will try to take a good look
over the next 48 hours.

cheers

andrew