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Alvaro Herrera 1caef31d9e Refactor Perl test code
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
2015-12-02 18:46:16 -03:00
config Accept flex > 2.5.x in configure. 2015-11-18 17:45:05 -05:00
contrib Add forgotten file in commit d6061f83a1 2015-11-25 16:59:07 +03:00
doc Use pg_rewind when target timeline was switched 2015-12-01 18:56:44 +03:00
src Refactor Perl test code 2015-12-02 18:46:16 -03:00
.dir-locals.el emacs: Set indent-tabs-mode in perl-mode 2015-04-12 23:53:23 -04:00
.gitattributes Add functions for dealing with PGP armor header lines to pgcrypto. 2014-10-01 16:03:39 +03:00
.gitignore Add .gitignore entries for AIX-specific intermediate build artifacts. 2015-07-08 20:44:22 -04:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in Fix distclean/maintainer-clean targets to remove top-level tmp_install dir. 2015-05-13 18:48:05 -04:00
HISTORY Improve text of stub HISTORY file. 2014-02-12 18:16:17 -05:00
Makefile Allow make check in PL directories 2011-02-15 06:52:12 +02:00
README Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore. 2014-02-10 20:48:04 -05:00
README.git Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore. 2014-02-10 20:48:04 -05:00
aclocal.m4 Replace our hacked version of ax_pthread.m4 with latest upstream version. 2015-07-08 20:36:06 +03:00
configure Accept flex > 2.5.x in configure. 2015-11-18 17:45:05 -05:00
configure.in Add BSWAP64 macro. 2015-10-08 13:01:36 -04:00

README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

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PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
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