Re: fairywren is generating bogus BASE_BACKUP commands - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 3:55 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 5:35 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> >     # See https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Porting/#filesystem-namespaces
> >     local $ENV{MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL} = $source_ts_prefix;
> > Probably in this case just setting it to 'server:' would do the trick.
>
> Oh, thanks for the tip. Do you want to push a commit that does that,
> or ... should I do it?

Just a thought:  Would it prevent the magic path translation and all
just work if the path were already in Windows form?  So, if we did
just this change at the top:

-my $tempdir = PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::tempdir;
+my $tempdir = PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::perl2host(PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::tempdir);