On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: >> Doing this without DBI is going to be ten times harder than doing it >> with DBI. Are we really sure that's not a viable option? > > In the buildfarm? Yes, I think so. The philosophy of the buildfarm is that > it should do what you would do yourself by hand.
It just seems crazy to me to try to test anything without proper language bindings. Opening a psql session and parsing the results seems extraordinarily painful. I wonder if it would make sense write a small wrapper program that uses libpq and dumps out the results in a format that is easy for Perl to parse. Another idea would be to make a set of Perl libpq bindings that is simpler than DBD::Pg and don't go through DBI. If we put those in the main source tree (perhaps as a contrib module) they would be available wherever we need them. > A parallel psql seems to me a better way to go. We talked about that a while > ago, but I don't recall what happened to it. That seems like a dead-end to me. It's hard for me to imagine it's ever going to be more than a toy. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
