Re: Postgres perl module namespace

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres perl module namespace
Date: 2021-08-10 15:02:13
Message-ID: d673844a-e670-36ff-d2fe-c1b9d579e9bd@dunslane.net
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On 8/10/21 10:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I will undertake to do the work, once we get the bike-shedding part done.
>> I'll kick that off by suggesting we move all of these to the namespace
>> PgTest, and rename TestLib to Utils, so instead of
>>     use TestLib;
>>     use PostgresNode;
>> you would say
>>     use PgTest::Utils;
>>     use PgTest::PostgresNode;
> Using both "Pg" and "Postgres" seems a bit inconsistent.
> Maybe "PgTest::PgNode"?
>
> More generally, I've never thought that "Node" was a great name
> here; it's a very vague term. While we're renaming, maybe we
> could change it to "PgTest::PgCluster" or the like?
>
>

I can live with that. I guess to be consistent we would also rename
PostgresVersion to PgVersion

cheers

andrew

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