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Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-09-06T05:08:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 09:58:08AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 9/4/21 2:19 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
>> plperl uses PostgreSQL:: as the first component of its Perl module namespace.
>> We shouldn't use both PostgreSQL:: and Postgres:: in the same source tree, so
>> this change should not use Postgres::. 
>
> Good point. Here's the same thing using PostgreSQL::Test

A minor point: this introduces PostgreSQL::Test::PostgresVersion.
Could be this stripped down to PostgreSQL::Test::Version instead?
--
Michael

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