Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2020-06-09 09:19, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 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).

I was using MSYS2 and the Perl version appears to have been 5.30.2. 
Note sure which one of these two factors makes the difference.

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