Re: More Perl cleanups

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 05:39:30PM +0000, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> In some recent-ish commits (ce1b0f9d, fd4c4ede and cc2c9fa6) we
> converted a lot of the TAP tests to use long command line options and
> fat commas (=>) to separate command line options from their arguments,
> so that perltidy does't break lines between them.
>
> However, those patches were nowhere near complete, so here's a follow-up
> to fix all the cases I could find. While I was there I failed to resist
> the urge to do some other minor tidy-ups that I think make things
> neater, but perltidy has no opinion on. I also eliminated some variables
> that were only initialised and then used once.

Thanks for digging into all that. Agreed that it would be nice to
apply a more consistent style for this release. I'll look more into
what you have here.

> The second patch might be more controversial: it eliminates unnecessary
> quoting from hash keys, both inside curly braces and before fat commas
> (except where a hash has a mix of keys that need quoting and not).

Hmm. I can partially get behind this one, seeing things like that in
what you have sent:

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('primary');
# Make sure pg_hba.conf is set up to allow connections from backupuser.
# This is only needed on Windows machines that don't use UNIX sockets.
$node->init(
- 'allows_streaming' => 1,
- 'auth_extra' => [ '--create-role' => 'backupuser' ]);
+ allows_streaming => 1,
+ auth_extra => [ '--create-role' => 'backupuser' ]);

This option handling style is inconsistent in the tree. Most of the
time these keywords are not quoted when it comes to our internal test
modules..
--
Michael