| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mikael Kjellström <mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Backporting BackgroundPsql |
| Date: | 2024-06-26 00:25:13 |
| Message-ID: | Zntf6aGLiPS2Aj3n@paquier.xyz |
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 02:12:42AM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> FWIW I successfully used the preliminary PqFFI stuff Andrew posted to
> write a test program for bug #18377, which I think ended up being better
> than with BackgroundPsql, so I think it's a good way forward. As for
> back-patching it, I suspect we're going to end up backpatching the
> framework anyway just because we'll want to have it available for
> backpatching future tests, even if we keep a backpatch minimal by doing
> only the framework and not existing tests.
>
> I also backpatched the PqFFI and PostgreSQL::Session modules to older PG
> branches, to run my test program there. This required only removing
> some lines from PqFFI.pm that were about importing libpq functions that
> older libpq didn't have.
Nice! I definitely +1 the backpatching of the testing bits. This
stuff can make validating bugs so much easier, particularly when there
are conflicting parts in the backend after a cherry-pick.
--
Michael
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