Re: tap tests driving the database via psql

Hi,

On 2019-07-27 17:48:39 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 7/27/19 3:15 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I'm not volunteering to do 4), my perl skills aren't great (if the test
> > infra were python, otoh... I have the skeleton of a pure perl driver
> > that I used for testing somewhere). But I am leaning towards that being
> > the most reasonable choice.
>
> +1 for #4.
>
>
> I'll be happy to participate in any effort.
>
>
> About 22 years ago I wrote a pure perl implementation of a wire protocol
> of roughly similar complexity (RFC1459). I got it basically working in
> just a few days, so this sort of thing is very doable. Let's see your
> skeleton and maybe it's a good starting point.

The skeleton's in python though, not sure how helpful that is?

/me once more regrets that perl, not python, has been chosen as the
scripting language of choice for postgres...

Greetings,

Andres Freund