Re: pg_rewind fails on Windows where tablespaces are used

On 2025-01-14 Tu 4:12 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2025-01-08 We 10:38 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
>> wrote:
>>> Those patches didn't actually include any tests. I guess the best test
>>> would be to create a chain of several junction points and then run
>>> initdb on the leaf of the chain?
>> Yeah I think the three interesting cases were initdb when run under
>> junctions like these:
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>> 1.  Volume GUID format: mklink /J foo \\?\Volume{12341234-1234...},
>> expected to break without patch
>> 2.  Chain: mklink /J C:\\aaa1 C:\\aaa2, mkdir /J C:\\aaa2 c:\\aaa3,
>> expected to break without patch
>> 3.  Chain of length > 8, expected to fail with ELOOP once the patch
>> is applied.
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>> (Syntax may be off, I just googled it but don't have Windows to try).
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>> The way to get decent tests for this stuff and all the rest of the
>> wrappers would probably be to develop this test suite further:
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>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKG%2BajSQ_8eu2AogTncOnZ5me2D-Cn66iN_-wZnRjLN%2Bicg%40mail.gmail.com
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> I can confirm that these two patches apply cleanly to releases 13 ..
> 15, that builds are also clean, and that tests 1..3 above pass/fail as
> expected. Tested on a WS2019 instance.
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I have pushed the backpatch of these two patches into release 13 .. 15.

cheers

andrew

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