Re: pg_basebackup fails with long tablespace paths - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 10/29/14 10:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 10/20/14 2:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> My Salesforce colleague Thomas Fanghaenel observed that the TAP tests
>>> for pg_basebackup fail when run in a sufficiently deeply-nested directory
>>> tree.
>>
>> As for the test, we can do something like the attached to mark the test
>> as "TODO".
> 
> What does this actually do?  It doesn't appear that it's just
> disabling the test.

It still runs the tests, but doesn't count the results in whether the
suite passes.