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Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-04-18T14:26:15Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.

Yeah ...

> 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'm not for that, but could it be sane to back-patch the renaming?

			regards, tom lane

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