Re: Postgres perl module namespace

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres perl module namespace
Date: 2021-09-07 11:43:47
Message-ID: 780f82bb-3a25-0c6f-154a-9f24b9324dba@dunslane.net
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On 9/6/21 1:08 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 09:58:08AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 9/4/21 2:19 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
>>> plperl uses PostgreSQL:: as the first component of its Perl module namespace.
>>> We shouldn't use both PostgreSQL:: and Postgres:: in the same source tree, so
>>> this change should not use Postgres::.
>> Good point. Here's the same thing using PostgreSQL::Test
> A minor point: this introduces PostgreSQL::Test::PostgresVersion.
> Could be this stripped down to PostgreSQL::Test::Version instead?

That name isn't very clear - what is it the version of, PostgreSQL or
the test?

There's nothing very test-specific about this module - it simply
encapsulates a Postgres version string. So maybe it should just be
PostgreSQL::Version.

cheers

andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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