Re: multi-install PostgresNode fails with older postgres versions

On 4/7/21 4:19 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Apr-07, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> b) as it stands pgaTester.pm can't be used for multiple versions in a
>> single program, which is a design goal here - it sets the single class
>> to invoke in its BEGIN block. At the very least we would need to replace
>> that with code which would require the relevant class as needed.
> I'm not suggesting that we adopt pgaTester.pm! I think a real patch for
> this approach involves moving that stuff into PostgresNode::new itself,
> as I said upthread: if install_path is given, call pg_config --version
> and then parse the version number into a class name $versionclass, then
> "bless $versionclass, $self". So the object returned by
> PostgresNode::new already has the correct class. We don't need to
> require anything, since all classes are in the same PostgresNode.pm
> file.
>

Oh, you want to roll them all up into one file? That could work. It's a
bit frowned on by perl purists, but I've done similar (see PGBuild/SCM.pm).

cheers

andrew

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