Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > I think the approach of having a long running psql session is really > useful, and probably would speed up some tests. Does anybody have a good > idea for how to best, and without undue effort, to integrate this into > PostgresNode.pm? I don't really have a great idea, so I think I'd leave > it with a local helper in the new test?
You could use the interactive_psql infrastructure that already exists for psql/t/010_tab_completion.pl. That does rely on IO::Pty, but I think I'd prefer to accept that dependency for such tests over rolling our own IPC::Run, which is more or less what you've done here. regards, tom lane