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Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

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From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-11T02:09:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:37 AM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> >
> >     use PgTest::Utils;
> >     use PgTest::PostgresNode;
>
> Checking CPAN, it seems there are three older modules with names starting with "Postgres":
>
>         Postgres
>         Postgres::Handler
>         Postgres::Handler::HTML
>
> It would be confusing to combine official PostgreSQL modules with those third party ones, so perhaps we can claim the PostgreSQL namespace for official project modules.  How about:
>
>         PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster
>         PostgreSQL::Test::Lib
>         PostgreSQL::Test::Utils
>
> and then if we ever wanted to have official packages for non-test purposes, we could start another namespace under PostgreSQL.

Maybe it's me but I would find that more confusing.  Also, to actually
claim PostgreSQL namespace, we would have to actually publish  them on
CPAN right?

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