• Alvaro Herrera's avatar
    Refactor Perl test code · 1caef31d
    Alvaro Herrera authored
    The original code was a bit clunky; make it more amenable for further
    reuse by creating a new Perl package PostgresNode, which is an
    object-oriented representation of a single server, with some support
    routines such as init, start, stop, psql.  This serves as a better basis
    on which to build further test code, and enables writing tests that use
    more than one server without too much complication.
    
    This commit modifies a lot of the existing test files, mostly to remove
    explicit calls to system commands (pg_ctl) replacing them with method
    calls of a PostgresNode object.  The result is quite a bit more
    straightforward.
    
    Also move some initialization code to BEGIN and INIT blocks instead of
    having it straight in as top-level code.
    
    This commit also introduces package RecursiveCopy so that we can copy
    whole directories without having to depend on packages that may not be
    present on vanilla Perl 5.8 installations.
    
    I also ran perltidy on the modified files, which changes some code sites
    that are not otherwise touched by this patch.  I tried to avoid this,
    but it ended up being more trouble than it's worth.
    
    Authors: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
    Review: Noah Misch
    1caef31d
040_createuser.pl 1002 Bytes