Re: multi-install PostgresNode fails with older postgres versions

On 4/21/21 1:13 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 01:11:59PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Here's the patch for that.
> Thanks.
>
>> + # Accept standard formats, in case caller has handed us the output of a
>> + # postgres command line tool
>> + $arg = $1
>> + if ($arg =~ m/\(?PostgreSQL\)? (\d+(?:\.\d+)*(?:devel)?)/);
> Interesting. This would work even if using --with-extra-version,
> which is a good thing.
>
>> +# render the version number in the standard "joined by dots" notation if
>> +# interpolated into a string
>> +sub _stringify
>> +{
>> + my $self = shift;
>> + return join('.', @$self);
>> +}
> This comes out a bit strangely when using a devel build as this
> appends -1 as sub-version number, becoming say 14.-1. It may be
> clearer to add back "devel" in this case?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to add some perldoc to PostgresVersion.pm?

Here's a patch with these things attended to.

cheers

andrew

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