Create common infrastructure for cross-version upgrade testing.REL9_6_STABLE

To test pg_upgrade across major PG versions, we have to be able to
modify or drop any old objects with no-longer-supported properties,
and we have to be able to deal with cosmetic changes in pg_dump output.
Up to now, the buildfarm and pg_upgrade's own test infrastructure had
separate implementations of the former, and we had nothing but very
ad-hoc rules for the latter (including an arbitrary threshold on how
many lines of unchecked diff were okay!).  This patch creates a Perl
module that can be shared by both those use-cases, and adds logic
that deals with pg_dump output diffs in a much more tightly defined
fashion.

This largely supersedes previous efforts in commits 0df9641d3,
9814ff550, and 62be9e4cd, which developed a SQL-script-based solution
for the task of dropping old objects.  There was nothing fundamentally
wrong with that work in itself, but it had no basis for solving the
output-formatting problem.  The most plausible way to deal with
formatting is to build a Perl module that can perform editing on the
dump files; and once we commit to that, it makes more sense for the
same module to also embed the knowledge of what has to be done for
dropping old objects.

Back-patch versions of the helper module as far as 9.2, to
support buildfarm animals that still test that far back.
It's also necessary to back-patch PostgreSQL/Version.pm,
because the new code depends on that.  I fixed up pg_upgrade's
002_pg_upgrade.pl in v15, but did not look into back-patching
it further than that.

Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us

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+############################################################################
+#
+# PostgreSQL/Version.pm
+#
+# Module encapsulating Postgres Version numbers
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2021-2022, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+#
+############################################################################
+
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+PostgreSQL::Version - class representing PostgreSQL version numbers
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+  use PostgreSQL::Version;
+
+  my $version = PostgreSQL::Version->new($version_arg);
+
+  # compare two versions
+  my $bool = $version1 <= $version2;
+
+  # or compare with a number
+  $bool = $version < 12;
+
+  # or with a string
+  $bool = $version lt "13.1";
+
+  # interpolate in a string
+  my $stringyval = "version: $version";
+
+  # get the major version
+  my $maj = $version->major;
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+PostgreSQL::Version encapsulates Postgres version numbers, providing parsing
+of common version formats and comparison operations.
+
+=cut
+
+package PostgreSQL::Version;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Scalar::Util qw(blessed);
+
+use overload
+  '<=>' => \&_version_cmp,
+  'cmp' => \&_version_cmp,
+  '""'  => \&_stringify;
+
+=pod
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=over
+
+=item PostgreSQL::Version->new($version)
+
+Create a new PostgreSQL::Version instance.
+
+The argument can be a number like 12, or a string like '12.2' or the output
+of a Postgres command like `psql --version` or `pg_config --version`;
+
+=back
+
+=cut
+
+sub new
+{
+	my $class = shift;
+	my $arg   = shift;
+
+	chomp $arg;
+
+	# Accept standard formats, in case caller has handed us the output of a
+	# postgres command line tool
+	my $devel;
+	($arg, $devel) = ($1, $2)
+	  if (
+		$arg =~ m!^                             # beginning of line
+          (?:\(?PostgreSQL\)?\s)?         # ignore PostgreSQL marker
+          (\d+(?:\.\d+)*)                 # version number, dotted notation
+          (devel|(?:alpha|beta|rc)\d+)?   # dev marker - see version_stamp.pl
+		 !x);
+
+	# Split into an array
+	my @numbers = split(/\./, $arg);
+
+	# Treat development versions as having a minor/micro version one less than
+	# the first released version of that branch.
+	push @numbers, -1 if ($devel);
+
+	$devel ||= "";
+
+	return bless { str => "$arg$devel", num => \@numbers }, $class;
+}
+
+# Routine which compares the _pg_version_array obtained for the two
+# arguments and returns -1, 0, or 1, allowing comparison between two
+# PostgreSQL::Version objects or a PostgreSQL::Version and a version string or number.
+#
+# If the second argument is not a blessed object we call the constructor
+# to make one.
+#
+# Because we're overloading '<=>' and 'cmp' this function supplies us with
+# all the comparison operators ('<' and friends, 'gt' and friends)
+#
+sub _version_cmp
+{
+	my ($a, $b, $swapped) = @_;
+
+	$b = __PACKAGE__->new($b) unless blessed($b);
+
+	($a, $b) = ($b, $a) if $swapped;
+
+	my ($an, $bn) = ($a->{num}, $b->{num});
+
+	for (my $idx = 0;; $idx++)
+	{
+		return 0
+		  if ($idx >= @$an && $idx >= @$bn);
+		# treat a missing number as 0
+		my ($anum, $bnum) = ($an->[$idx] || 0, $bn->[$idx] || 0);
+		return $anum <=> $bnum
+		  if ($anum <=> $bnum);
+	}
+}
+
+# Render the version number using the saved string.
+sub _stringify
+{
+	my $self = shift;
+	return $self->{str};
+}
+
+=pod
+
+=over
+
+=item major([separator => 'char'])
+
+Returns the major version. For versions before 10 the parts are separated by
+a dot unless the separator argument is given.
+
+=back
+
+=cut
+
+sub major
+{
+	my ($self, %params) = @_;
+	my $result = $self->{num}->[0];
+	if ($result + 0 < 10)
+	{
+		my $sep = $params{separator} || '.';
+		$result .= "$sep$self->{num}->[1]";
+	}
+	return $result;
+}
+
+1;