On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 02:44:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> both contain a TAP skip notice "symlinks not supported on Windows".
>
> This is untrue. Symlinks certainly work on Windows, and we have other TAP
> tests using them, for example for tablespaces.
> pg_rewind/t/004_pg_xlog_symlink.pl passes for me on Windows if I just remove
> the skip stuff. My attached patch does that.
What's the version of your perl installation on Windows? With 5.22, I
am still seeing that symlink() is not implemented, causing the tests
of pg_rewind to blow in flight with your patch (MSVC 2015 here).
--
Michael
