Re: TAP test module - PostgresClient

On 12/30/2017 10:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> As for out-dating, if we used DBD::PgPP we'd not be not in great danger
>> there - it doesn't appear to have changed for many years - latest
>> version is dated 2010. If we were to use it we'd have a dependency on
>> DBI, but that in itself doesn't seem a great burden.
> [ blowing the dust off my old red fedora... ] Actually, there's a
> different problem with this proposal: you can bet that DBD::Pg has got a
> build dependency on Postgres. If Postgres starts to depend on DBD::Pg
> then we've created circular-dependency hell for packagers.

The Pure Perl driver has no such dependency, since it doesn't require
libpq. But ...

> I much prefer the other line of thought about doing whatever we need
> to do to make psql workable for the desired type of tests.

... agreed ...

> Or just
> write a bespoke testing tool.
>
>

... that's pretty much where we came in.

cheers

andrew

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