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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup check vs Windows file path limits
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 10:12:49 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


On 2023-07-02 Su 09:15, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> The buildfarm animal fairywren has been failing the tests for 
> pg_basebackup because it can't create a file with a path longer than 
> 255 chars. This has just been tripped because for release 16 it's 
> running TAP tests, and the branch name is part of the file path, and 
> "REL_16_STABLE" is longer than "HEAD". I did think of chdir'ing into 
> the directory to create the file, but experimentation shows that 
> doesn't solve matters. I also adjusted the machine's settings related 
> to long file names, but to no avail, so for now I propose to reduce 
> slightly the name of the long file so it still exercises the check for 
> file names longer than 100 but doesn't trip this up on fairywren. But 
> that's a bandaid. I don't have a good solution for now.
>

I've pushed a better solution, which creates the file via a short 
symlink. Experimentation on fairywren showed this working.


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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