Re: Making background psql nicer to use in tap tests

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> It's annoyingly hard to wait for the result of a query in a generic way with
> background_psql(), and more generally for psql. background_psql() uses -XAtq,
> which means that we'll not get "status" output (like "BEGIN" or "(1 row)"),
> and that queries not returning anything are completely invisible.

Yeah, the empty-query-result problem was giving me fits recently.
+1 for wrapping this into something more convenient to use.

            regards, tom lane