Re: pg_tablespace_location() failure with allow_in_place_tablespaces

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 03:44:22PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> The use may be limited to any automated testing and
> allow_in_place_tablespaces is a developer GUC, still it seems to me
> that there is an argument to allow the case rather than tweak any
> tests to hardcode a path with the tablespace OID. And any other code
> paths are able to handle such tablespaces, be they in recovery or in
> tablespace create/drop.
>
> A junction point is a directory on WIN32 as far as I recall, but
> pgreadlink() is here to ensure that we get the correct path on
> a source found as pgwin32_is_junction(), so we can rely on that. This
> stuff has led me to the attached.

Thomas, I'd rather fix this for the sake of the tests. One point is
that the function returns a relative path for in-place tablespaces,
but it would be easy enough to append a DataDir. What do you think?
--
Michael