Re: multi-install PostgresNode fails with older postgres versions

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-05-20T11:15:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 07:05:05AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Your version of perl is apparently too old for this. Looks like that
> needs to be 5.22 or later: <https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5220delta>

Hmm.  src/test/perl/README tells about 5.8.0.  That's quite a jump.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Teach PostgresVersion all the ways to mark non-release code

  2. Make PostgresNode version aware

  3. Avoid unfortunate IPC::Run path caching in PostgresNode

  4. Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status in postmaster.pid.