Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Cause TestLib.pm to define $windows_os in all branches.
>>
>> Back-port of a part of commit 690ed2b76ab91eb79ea04ee2bfbdc8a2693f2a37 that
>> I'd depended on without realizing that it was only added recently. Since
>> it seems entirely likely that other such tests will need to be back-patched
>> in future, providing the flag seems like a better answer than just putting
>> a test in-line.
> Is it really worth it back-patching the portions with $windows_os to
> back-branches? This indeed makes back-patch a bit easier but the tests
> cannot run on Windows because 13d856e1 has not been added in PG <=
> 9.5.
Hmm, well, why wasn't that back-patched? We expect these tests to run
on Windows don't we?
regards, tom lane
