Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ian Barwick <ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()
Date: 2020-09-15 00:42:51
Message-ID: 20200915004251.3yvuui5rdugzjhcn@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2020-09-14 20:14:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I think the approach of having a long running psql session is really
> > useful, and probably would speed up some tests. Does anybody have a good
> > idea for how to best, and without undue effort, to integrate this into
> > PostgresNode.pm? I don't really have a great idea, so I think I'd leave
> > it with a local helper in the new test?
>
> You could use the interactive_psql infrastructure that already exists
> for psql/t/010_tab_completion.pl. That does rely on IO::Pty, but
> I think I'd prefer to accept that dependency for such tests over rolling
> our own IPC::Run, which is more or less what you've done here.

My test uses IPC::Run - although I'm indirectly 'use'ing, which I guess
isn't pretty. Just as 013_crash_restart.pl already did (even before
psql/t/010_tab_completion.pl). I am mostly wondering whether we could
avoid copying the utility functions into multiple test files...

Does IO::Pty work on windows? Given that currently the test doesn't use
a pty and that there's no benefit I can see in requiring one, I'm a bit
hesitant to go there?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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