Re: Query execution in Perl TAP tests needs work

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 6:42 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

I confess I'm a little reluctant to impose this burden on buildfarm owners. We should think about some sort of fallback in case this isn't supported on some platform, either due to technological barriers or buildfarm owner reluctance.

I guess you're thinking that it could be done in such a way that it is
automatically used for $node->safe_psql() and various other things if
Platypus is detected, but otherwise forking psql as now, for a
transition period?  Then we could nag build farm owners, and
eventually turn off the fallback stuff after N months.  After that it
would begin to be possible to use this in more interesting and
advanced ways.

Yeah, that would be ideal. I'll prep a version of the module that doesn't fail if FFI::Platypus isn't available, but instead sets a flag we can test.

cheers

andrew

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