Re: Postgres perl module namespace

On 2022-04-18 Mo 11:52, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I just, again, tried to backport a test as part of a bugfix. The
>> renaming between 14 and 15 makes that task almost comically harder. The
>> only way I see of dealing with that for the next 5 years is to just
>> never backpatch tests to < 15. Which seems like a bad outcome.

I'm not sure how often we do things like that. But I don't agree it's
impossibly hard, although I can see it might be a bit annoying.

> For what it's worth, to back-patch TAP suite changes, I've been using this
> script (works on a .p[lm] file or on a patch file):
>
> ==== bin/tap15to14
> #! /bin/sh
>
> # This translates a PostgreSQL 15 TAP test into a PostgreSQL 14 TAP test
>
> sed -i~ '
> s/PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster/PostgresNode/g
> s/PostgreSQL::Test::Utils/TestLib/g
> s/PostgresNode->new/get_new_node/g
> ' -- "$@"
>
> grep -w subtest -- "$@"
> ====
>

Yeah, that should take care of most of it.

>> Except that it's *way* too late I would argue that this should just
>> straight up be reverted until that aspect is addressed. It's a
>> maintenance nightmare.
> I do feel PostgreSQL has been over-eager to do cosmetic refactoring. For me,
> this particular one has been sort-of-tolerable.

There were reasons beyond being purely cosmetic for all the changes.

cheers

andrew

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