On 2023-Oct-18, Robert Haas wrote: > Without FFI::Platypus, we have to write Perl code that can speak the > wire protocol directly. Basically, we're writing our own PostgreSQL > driver for Perl, though we might need only a subset of the things a > real driver would need to handle, and we might add some extra things, > like code that can send intentionally botched protocol messages.
We could revive the old src/interfaces/perl5 code, which was a libpq wrapper -- at least the subset of it that the tests need. It was moved to gborg by commit 9a0b4d7f8474 and a couple more versions were made there, which can be seen at https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/projects/gborg/pgperl/stable/, version 2.1.1 being apparently the latest. The complete driver was about 3000 lines, judging by the commit that removed it. Presumably we don't need the whole of that. Apparently the project was migrated from gborg to pgFoundry at some point, because this exists https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/projects/pgFoundry/pgperl/ and maybe they did some additional changes there, but at least our FTP site doesn't show anything. Perhaps there were never any releases, and we don't have the CVSROOT. But I doubt any changes at that point would have been critical. -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
