Re: Using LibPq in TAP tests via FFI - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2024-06-16 19:07:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >> I'm somewhat doubtful we'll just agree on making FFI::Platypus a hard
> >> dependency, but if we agree to do so...
> 
> > Why can't we just do that?  I mean, do we have any concrete reason to
> > think that it'll block a supported platform?
> 
> IIUC, this would only be a hard dependency if you want to run certain
> TAP tests (maybe eventually all of them).

I think it'd be all of them within a very short timeframe. IMO we'd want to
convert a bunch of the code in Cluster.pm to use psql-less connections to
maximize the benefit across all tests, without needing to modify all of them.

Greetings,

Andres Freund