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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:17:51 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>,
	Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
	Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: standby recovery fails (tablespace related) (tentative patch and
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On 2022-Jul-21, Thomas Munro wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:51 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > v26 here.  I spent some time fighting the readdir() stuff for
> > Windows (so that get_dirent_type returns LNK for junction points)
> > but couldn't make it to work and was unable to figure out why.
> 
> Was it because of this?
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGKv%2B736Pc8kSj3%3DDijDGd1eC79-uT3Vi16n7jYkcc_raw%40mail.gmail.com

Oh, that sounds very likely, yeah.  I didn't think of testing the
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY bit for junction points.

I +1 pushing both of these patches to 14.  Then this patch becomes a
couple of lines shorter.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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