Hi,
Peter, it'd be really good if you could chime in here PDQ.
On 2019-05-17 13:25:36 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> This may sound rough, but based on the timing and the time I can spend
> on that, I really think that we should revert 57431a9, as this has not
> been completely thought through for EXEC_BACKEND, and the patch I am
> attaching is a set of rough counter-measures which keep piling up,
> giving a result I am not comfortable with at all. I am not sure that
> I could actually go to the bottom of it without reworking the way we
> attach, detach and reattach to shared memory a process, particularly
> on Windows where we don't actually need to allocate a region for a
> process we know will never use shared memory (right?). And this is no
> time to do so for v12.
I'm not sure I see this as sufficient reason to revert.
> Last year I did the same kind of mistake by
> underestimating the Windows-related stuff for v11 just before a
> release which has resulted in an urgent revert as of df8b5f3. I don't
> want to do the same mistake again.
I don't think a windows-only patch is the same thing as a feature, one
that makes debugging easier to boot, that's applicable to all platforms.
> diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/config_default.pl b/src/tools/msvc/config_default.pl
> index d7a9fc5039..de070e26e5 100644
> --- a/src/tools/msvc/config_default.pl
> +++ b/src/tools/msvc/config_default.pl
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> our $config = {
> - asserts => 0, # --enable-cassert
> + asserts => 1, # --enable-cassert
> # float4byval=>1, # --disable-float4-byval, on by default
>
> # float8byval=> $platformbits == 64, # --disable-float8-byval,
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ our $config = {
> gss => undef, # --with-gssapi=<path>
> icu => undef, # --with-icu=<path>
> nls => undef, # --enable-nls=<path>
> - tap_tests => undef, # --enable-tap-tests
> + tap_tests => 1, # --enable-tap-tests
> tcl => undef, # --with-tcl=<path>
> perl => undef, # --with-perl
> python => undef, # --with-python=<path>
Hm? Is this to coerce cfbot?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
