Re: pgsql: Improve pg_basebackup long file name test Windows robustness

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve pg_basebackup long file name test Windows robustness
Date: 2023-07-03 14:51:03
Message-ID: f4bada59-73ce-002f-ad6a-8bc618c7fbab@dunslane.net
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On 2023-07-03 Mo 10:19, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 3 Jul 2023, at 16:08, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> Improve pg_basebackup long file name test Windows robustness
>>
>> Creation of a file with a very long name can create problems on Windows
>> due to its file path limits. Work around that by creating the file via a
>> symlink with a shorter name.
> +dir_symlink "$pgdata", "$lftmp/pgdata";
>
> dir_symlink doesn't exist in REL_12_STABLE.

Argh!. ok, thanks, will fix.

cheers

andrew

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