Re: Backporting BackgroundPsql

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Mikael Kjellström <mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com>

Date: 2024-06-25T10:32:59Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 25/06/2024 13:26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> While fixing a recent bug on visibility on a standby [1], I wrote a 
> regression test that uses BackgroundPsql to run some queries in a 
> long-running psql session. The problem is that that was refactored in 
> v17, commit 664d757531. The test I wrote for v17 doesn't work as it is 
> on backbranches. Options:

Sorry, I meant v16. The BackgroundPsql refactorings went into v16. The 
backporting question remains for v15 and below.

-- 
Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)

Commits

Fix missing installation/uninstallation rules for BackgroundPsql.pm
- 241ef53b6a95 12.20 landed
- 0d80e59a1b2c 13.16 landed
- 1185be355462 14.13 landed
- 9d7506a2f7cb 15.8 landed
Backport BackgroundPsql perl test module
- 4b467a6581af 12.20 landed
- 12f327b210b3 13.16 landed
- 31877cd8ec8c 14.13 landed
- d5fd7865f068 15.8 landed
- 187b8991f70f 16.4 landed
Add missing uninstallation rule for BackgroundPsql.pm
- 7039c7cff673 16.0 cited
Fix missing installation rules for BackgroundPsql.pm
- a4c17c86176c 16.0 cited
Skip \password TAP test on old IPC::Run versions
- 2e57ffe12f6b 16.0 landed
Test SCRAM iteration changes with psql \password
- bf5a894c5571 16.0 landed
Refactor background psql TAP functions
- 664d757531e1 16.0 landed