Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands
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Msg-id 1759207.1642972517@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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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