Hi, On 2024-06-11 08:04:57 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Some time ago I did some work on wrapping libpq using the perl FFI module. > It worked pretty well, and would mean we could probably avoid many uses of > IPC::Run, and would probably be substantially more efficient (no fork > required). It wouldn't avoid all uses of IPC::Run, though.
FWIW, I'd *love* to see work on this continue. The reduction in test runtime on windows is substantial and would shorten the hack->CI->fail->hack loop a good bit shorter. And save money. > But my point was mainly that while a new framework might have value, I don't > think we need to run out and immediately rewrite several hundred TAP tests. Oh, yea. That's not at all feasible to just do in one go. Greetings, Andres Freund
