Thirty seconds was not consistently enough for promotion to complete on
buildfarm members sungazer and tern. Experiments suggest 43s would have
been enough. Back-patch to 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced.
To support this, we must reconcile some historical anomalies in the
behavior of -c. In particular, as a backward-incompatibility, -c no
longer implies --no-psqlrc.
Pavel Stehule (code) and Catalin Iacob (documentation). Review by
Michael Paquier and myself. Proposed behavior per Tom Lane.
Noted by Tom Lane:
- PostgresNode had a BEGIN block which created files, contrary to
perlmod suggestions to do that only on INIT blocks.
- Assign ports randomly rather than starting from 90600.
Noted by Noah Misch:
- Change use of no-longer-set PGPORT environment variable to $node->port
- Don't start a server in pg_controldata test
- PostgresNode was reading the PID file incorrectly; test the right
thing, and chomp the line we read from the PID file.
- Remove an unused $devnull variable
- Use 'pg_ctl kill' instead of "kill" directly, for Windos portability.
- Make server log names more informative.
Author: Michael Paquier
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
