Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests
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Msg-id 86d0a8b3-7a97-9829-78a7-b3c6f767e38f@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 6/22/21 10:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> It's worth pointing out that Cygwin psql is built with readline, which
>> makes it rather nicer to use than the Native builds. We still have this
>> in configure.ac:
>>
>> # readline on MinGW has problems with backslashes in psql and other bugs.
>> # This is particularly a problem with non-US code pages.
>> # Therefore disable its use until we understand the cause. 2004-07-20
>>
>> I have no idea if it's still true. My msys2 system (fairywren) has
>> readline installed. Assuming I disable this piece of code and build with
>> readline, how would I test for the errors reported in 2004?
> A bit of archive excavation turned up various contemporaneous reports:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BE7A%40algol.sollentuna.se
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ca3pfg%2427tt%241%40news.hub.org
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/OFD583EA49.2F089C03-ONC1256E6A.002706B8-C1256E6A.002784FC%40flender.com
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/OF585C42B8.14897FF3-ONC1256EBC.0042A26E-C1256EBC.0042E23F%40flender.com
>
> It's certainly possible that some or all of those problems are gone.
>
>             



Thanks, I will need more info than seems to be there though.


cheers


andrew

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