Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-08-10T15:02:13Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 8/10/21 10:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I will undertake to do the work, once we get the bike-shedding part done.
>> I'll kick that off by suggesting we move all of these to the namespace
>> PgTest, and rename TestLib to Utils, so instead of
>>     use TestLib;
>>     use PostgresNode;
>> you would say
>>     use PgTest::Utils;
>>     use PgTest::PostgresNode;
> Using both "Pg" and "Postgres" seems a bit inconsistent.
> Maybe "PgTest::PgNode"?
>
> More generally, I've never thought that "Node" was a great name
> here; it's a very vague term.  While we're renaming, maybe we
> could change it to "PgTest::PgCluster" or the like?
>
> 			



I can live with that. I guess to be consistent we would also rename
PostgresVersion to PgVersion


cheers


andrew


--
Andrew Dunstan
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

Fix PostgreSQL::Test aliasing for Perl v5.10.1.
- fe25c8533c17 12.12 landed
- ca590a4e958f 10.22 landed
- bf92b73beb50 11.17 landed
- aa1845cdd697 13.8 landed
- 4b0d21b06c6b 14.5 landed
For PostgreSQL::Test compatibility, alias entire package symbol tables.
- 38790408b020 10.22 landed
- ec26f44d539a 12.12 landed
- e8f037a2df9b 13.8 landed
- c41edb324294 11.17 landed
- 20911775de4a 14.5 landed
Make PostgresNode easily subclassable
- 54dacc746628 10.0 cited