On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 7:27 AM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote: > > > On 13 Jun 2024, at 00:34, Melanie Plageman <melanieplage...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > FWIW, I felt a lot of pain trying to write recovery TAP tests with > > IPC::Run's pumping functionality. It was especially painful (as > > someone who knows even less Perl than the "street fighting Perl" > > Thomas Munro has described having) before the additional test > > infrastructure was added in BackgroudPsql.pm last year. > > A key aspect of this, which isn't specific to Perl or our use of it, is that > this was done in backbranches which doesn't have the (recently) much improved > BackgroundPsql.pm. The quality of our tools and the ease of use they provide > is directly related to the investment we make into continuously improving our > testharness. Regardless of which toolset we adopt, if we don't make this > investment (taking learnings from the past years and toolsets into account) > we're bound to repeat this thread in a few years advocating for toolset X+1.
True. And thank you for committing BackgroundPsql.pm (and Andres for starting that work). My specific case is likely one of a poor work person blaming her tools :) - Melanie
