Re: fairywren hung in pg_basebackup tests

On 2022-07-25 Mo 11:24, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 3:08 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> Right, so the "glob" failed to find anything. Seeing that this test
>>> is new as of 534472375, which postdates fairywren's last successful
>>> run, I'd guess that the "glob" needs adjustment for msys path names.
> The test added by 534472375 is at the end, hundreds of lines later
> than the one that appears to be failing.

Right.

>
>> Hmm ... an alternative theory is that the test is fine, and what
>> it's telling us is that get_dirent_type() is still wrong on msys.
>> Would that end in this symptom?
> Hmm, possibly yes (if it sees a non-symlink, it'll skip it). If
> someone can run the test on an msys system, perhaps they could put a
> debugging elog() into the code modified by 9d3444dc to log d_name and
> the d_type that is returned? I'm struggling to understand why msys
> would change the answer though.

I have no idea either. The link exists and it is a junction. I'll see
about logging details.

cheers

andrew

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