Re: multi-install PostgresNode fails with older postgres versions

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-23T00:43:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 4/22/21 5:08 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> WFM, thanks :-)
> Also, do we need to worry about beta releases?  Just recalled that
> now.


Interesting point. Maybe we need to do something like devel = -4, alpha
= -3, beta = -2, rc = -1. Or maybe that's overkill.


cheers


andrew

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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.