Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

From: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"
Date: 2016-05-20 22:08:41
Message-ID: 56CEF291-6629-4CCC-AED4-3D77107C8C08@blighty.com
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> On May 20, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On May 20, 2016, at 13:38 , Pierre Chevalier Géologue <pierrechevaliergeol(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>>
>> Le 04/05/2016 18:29, Szymon Lipiński a écrit :
>>> On the other hand, when I was trying to store all my logic in a
>>> database, there was just one thing that made me hate it. Testing.
>>> Testing the procedures inside the database was not easy, not funny, and
>>> too much time consuming.
>>
>> Yes, very good point.
>
> Are there any best practices or tricks to make this easier?

In-database unit tests help. pgTap is a decent framework
for building that sort of test-suite in a way that'll play nice with
reporting and CI tools.

http://pgtap.org

Cheers,
Steve

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