Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
>
> On September 18, 2017 4:08:21 AM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
>>wrote:
>>>>It seems to me that you are looking more for a connection parameter
>>>>here.
>>>
>>> I'm not seeing a meaningful distinction here? Env vars and connection
>>parameters are handled using the same framework in libpq.  And using
>>the env var in the test would be better, because you'd only set one
>>value - hard to do within our non TAP tests (i.e. in an existing psql,
>>started by pg regress) otherwise.
>>
>>Or both? I don't really understand why an environment variable is
>>better than a connection string. For the TAP tests, you could just set
>>the base of the connection string once and you are done as well. See
>>the SSL tests for example.
>
> Did you read what I wrote?

Sorry, I missed the "non" with "TAP" tests. Having a connection
parameter would still be low-cost in maintenance, so if you add that
at the same time I won't complain.
-- 
Michael


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