Re: Is it time to kill support for very old servers?

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
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> On September 18, 2017 4:08:21 AM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
>>wrote:
>>>>It seems to me that you are looking more for a connection parameter
>>>>here.
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>>> I'm not seeing a meaningful distinction here? Env vars and connection
>>parameters are handled using the same framework in libpq. And using
>>the env var in the test would be better, because you'd only set one
>>value - hard to do within our non TAP tests (i.e. in an existing psql,
>>started by pg regress) otherwise.
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>>Or both? I don't really understand why an environment variable is
>>better than a connection string. For the TAP tests, you could just set
>>the base of the connection string once and you are done as well. See
>>the SSL tests for example.
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> Did you read what I wrote?

Sorry, I missed the "non" with "TAP" tests. Having a connection
parameter would still be low-cost in maintenance, so if you add that
at the same time I won't complain.
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Michael