Hi, On 2024-06-16 19:07:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > >> I'm somewhat doubtful we'll just agree on making FFI::Platypus a hard > >> dependency, but if we agree to do so... > > > Why can't we just do that? I mean, do we have any concrete reason to > > think that it'll block a supported platform? > > IIUC, this would only be a hard dependency if you want to run certain > TAP tests (maybe eventually all of them).
I think it'd be all of them within a very short timeframe. IMO we'd want to convert a bunch of the code in Cluster.pm to use psql-less connections to maximize the benefit across all tests, without needing to modify all of them. Greetings, Andres Freund