Re: Testlib.pm vs msys

On 07/25/2017 11:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 07/24/2017 09:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Seems like the TAP test should fail every time, if this is a full
>>> description. But maybe it's part of the answer, so it seems worth
>>> experimenting in this direction.
>> The test that hangs is the only case where we call pg_ctl via
>> command_like. If we use other mechanisms such as command_ok that don't
>> try to read the output there is no problem.
> What I'm on about is that jacana still succeeds entirely, more than half
> the time. If this is a handle-duplication problem, how could it ever
> succeed?
>

No, it hangs 100% of the time. The only time you see a result at all is
if I manually intervene. The pg_ctl test is thus currently disabled on
jacana.

cheers

andrew

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