On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:25:01 +0200 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> 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. +1 to test this. I can give it some time to revive it and post results here if you agree and no one think of some show stopper.
