Re: [PATCH v1] Fix pg_basebackup long-path test on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> On 26 Jul 2026, at 02:02, Harrison Booth <harrisontbooth@gmail.com> wrote:

> On my build, that target path was 253 characters.  Perl's mkdir failed
> at Windows' default 248-character directory path limit, but the result
> was unchecked.  The test then failed later with a misleading
> CREATE TABLESPACE "directory does not exist" error.

-mkdir "$tempdir/$superlongname";
+mkdir "$real_sys_tempdir/$superlongname"
+  or BAIL_OUT "could not create $real_sys_tempdir/$superlongname";

Shouldn't this include $! to give a hint to the user what the error might be?

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Daniel Gustafsson