On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:42 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > +ERROR: could not set permissions on directory > > "C:/projects/postgresql/src/test/regress/testtablespace": Permission > > denied > > > > Any ideas? Here's what it does: > > > > https://github.com/macdice/cfbot/tree/master/appveyor > > I am not sure, and I am not really familiar with this stuff. Your > code does a simple vcregress check, and that should take care of > automatically cleaning up the testtablespace path. The buildfarm uses > this code for MSVC builds and does not complain, nor do my own VMs > complain. A difference in the processing after 2b2a070d is that the > tablespace cleanup/creation does not happen while holding a restricted > token [1] anymore because it got out of pg_regress.c. Are there any > kind of restrictions applied to the user running appveyor on Windows?
Thanks for the clue. Appveyor runs your build script as a privileged user (unlike, I assume, the build farm animals), and that has caused a problem with this test in the past, though I don't know the details. I might go and teach it to skip that test until a fix can be found.
