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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_tablespace_location() failure with allow_in_place_tablespaces
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 20:36:20 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 03:44:22PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> The use may be limited to any automated testing and
> allow_in_place_tablespaces is a developer GUC, still it seems to me
> that there is an argument to allow the case rather than tweak any
> tests to hardcode a path with the tablespace OID.  And any other code
> paths are able to handle such tablespaces, be they in recovery or in
> tablespace create/drop.
> 
> A junction point is a directory on WIN32 as far as I recall, but
> pgreadlink() is here to ensure that we get the correct path on
> a source found as pgwin32_is_junction(), so we can rely on that.  This
> stuff has led me to the attached.

Thomas, I'd rather fix this for the sake of the tests.  One point is
that the function returns a relative path for in-place tablespaces,
but it would be easy enough to append a DataDir.  What do you think?
--
Michael


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