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Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-11T13:22:45Z
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On 2021-Aug-10, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> If we were publishing them on CPAN that would be reasonable. But we're
> not, nor are we likely to, I believe. I'd rather not have to add two
> level of directory hierarchy for this, and this also seems a bit
> long-winded:
> 
>     my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('nodename');

I'll recast my vote to make this line be

     my $node = PgTest::Cluster->new('nodename');

which seems succint enough.  I could get behind PgTest::PgCluster too,
but having a second Pg there seems unnecessary.

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Álvaro Herrera              Valdivia, Chile  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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Commits

  1. Fix PostgreSQL::Test aliasing for Perl v5.10.1.

  2. For PostgreSQL::Test compatibility, alias entire package symbol tables.

  3. Make PostgresNode easily subclassable