Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 7/9/20 11:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Therefore, we either should figure out how to get msys perl to do
>> that conversion (and remove it from our code altogether), or make the
>> conversions conditional on "is it msys perl?". I am not quite sure
>> if the existing tests "if $Config{osname} eq 'msys'" are a legitimate
>> implementation of that condition or not --- it seems like nominally
>> they are checking the OS not the Perl, but maybe it's close enough.
> If the reported OS is msys (it's a pseudo OS in effect) then the perl
> must be msys' perl. Even when called from msys, native perl reports the
> OS as MSWin32. So yes, close enough.
Cool, I'll go try changing all those conditions to use the msys test.
regards, tom lane
