From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures
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Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 4/8/20 3:41 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I don't understand what the local $ENV{MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL} =
>> $source_ts_prefix does, 

> You don't want to know ....
> See <https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Porting/#filesystem-namespaces> for the
> gory details.

I don't want to know either, but maybe that reference should be cited
somewhere near where we use this sort of hack.

			regards, tom lane