Re: Using LibPq in TAP tests via FFI

Hi,

On 2024-06-16 19:07:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> >> I'm somewhat doubtful we'll just agree on making FFI::Platypus a hard
> >> dependency, but if we agree to do so...
>
> > Why can't we just do that? I mean, do we have any concrete reason to
> > think that it'll block a supported platform?
>
> IIUC, this would only be a hard dependency if you want to run certain
> TAP tests (maybe eventually all of them).

I think it'd be all of them within a very short timeframe. IMO we'd want to
convert a bunch of the code in Cluster.pm to use psql-less connections to
maximize the benefit across all tests, without needing to modify all of them.

Greetings,

Andres Freund