Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:20:35 -0800
From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2026-01-14 12:40:21 -0800, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > IPC::Run is now at 20250809.0 for Debian and the BSDs in our CI.
> > (Strawberry Perl on Windows still lags.) I see the cfbot is starting
> > to make use of the new images.
> 
> Thanks a lot for working on that!  The noise due to the old IPC::Run has been
> very annoying...
> 
> Noah, do you know if upgrading on windows would fix any issues? Unfortunately

The latest version detects child process exit faster on Windows.  It doesn't
affect whether a test passes, but tests may finish faster.

> the recipe we used for all the other platforms probably won't quite work on
> windows (although it's possible we could use the mingw install to build the
> IPC::Run for the perl install used by the msvc build).

I'd just unpack the tarball and add $PWD/IPC-Run/lib to the PERL5LIB envar.