Re: recovery tests vs windows

On 04/22/2017 04:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> After we got over the Test::More version issue, the recovery tests
> proceeded to fail fairly spectacularly in a test run on jacana.
>
>
> Test 6 fails because there is a CR in the returned stdout from psql. I'm
> inclined to adjust that in PostgresNode::safe_psql so we don't have to
> do it all over the place.
>
> It looks like at least some tests are failing because of confusion
> between Windows paths and the MSys virtualized paths. For example, I see
> this:
>
> 2017-04-22 10:01:14.436 EDT [2276] LOG: archive command failed with
> exit code 1
> 2017-04-22 10:01:14.436 EDT [2276] DETAIL: The failed archive
> command was: copy "pg_wal\000000010000000000000001"
> "/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/data_master_TCeC/archives\000000010000000000000001"
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> 0 file(s) copied.
>
> Paths that go in recovery.conf or archive commands must of course be
> pure Windows paths.In this case the path would have been correct if
> prefixed with "c:/Mingw/Msys/1.0"
>
> I'll try to come up with a fix for that.
>
>

All the issue should be fixed by the attached patch.

cheers

andrew

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