Hi,
On 2021-12-09 14:47:39 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 07:08:56PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2021-12-08 18:46:04 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> On 2021-12-08 21:18:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It's not stable, but afaict all the "instability" can be handled by
> >> relying on
> >> a system-set environment variable... Referencing it as
> >> $ENV{SYSTEMROOT}/system32/tar.exe ought to work? I'll test that approach
> >> via
> >> CI, but of course that won't verify that it works in all kinds of odd
> >> installations.
> >
> > That worked: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6302355785252864
> > https://github.com/anarazel/postgres/commit/49cf19f160080353da391f177a7d8c28218023bb
>
> Well, I am afraid that this is not a completely stable path. That
> would not work here, for one.
Could you expand on why it doesn't work? As far as I can tell tar is shipped
with windows these days, and %SYSTEMROOT%/system32/tar.exe should point to
that tar?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
