Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests

> On 8 Apr 2023, at 02:49, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I wrote:
>> I've been doing some checking with perlbrew locally.  It appears to not
>> be about IO::Pty so much as IPC::Run: it works with IPC::Run 0.99 but
>> not 0.79.  Still bisecting to identify exactly what's the minimum
>> okay version.
>
> The answer is: it works with IPC::Run >= 0.98.  The version of IO::Pty
> doesn't appear significant; it works at least back to 1.00 from early
> 2002.

Thanks for investigating this!

> IPC::Run 0.98 is relatively new (2018), so I don't think it'd fly
> to make that our new minimum version across-the-board.

Absolutely, that's not an option.

> I recommend
> just setting up this one test to SKIP if IPC::Run is too old.

Yes, will do that when I have a little more time at hand for monitoring the BF
later today.

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Daniel Gustafsson