Re: option -T in pg_basebackup doesn't work on windows

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:20 PM, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> From: "Amit Kapila" <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
>
>> During my recent work on pg_basebackup, I noticed that
>> -T option doesn't seem to work on Windows.
>> The reason for the same is that while updating symlinks
>> it doesn't consider that on Windows, junction points can
>> be directories due to which it is not able to update the
>> symlink location.
>> Fix is to make the code work like symlink removal code
>> in destroy_tablespace_directories. Attached patch fixes
>> problem.
>
>
> I could reproduce the problem on my Windows machine.
>
> The code change appears correct, but the patch application failed against
the latest source code. I don't know why. Could you confirm this?
>
> patching file src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 1119.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c.rej

It failed due to one of recent commits as mentioned by
Michael. Please find the rebased patch attached with this
mail

> On the following line, I think %d must be %u, because Oid is an unsigned
integer.
>
> char *linkloc = psprintf("%s/pg_tblspc/%d", basedir, oid);

Yeah, though this is not introduced by patch, but I think
this should be fixed and I have fixed it attached patch.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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