From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework |
Date: | 2024-06-12 10:17:21 |
Message-ID: | 65ba359b-9a0e-4116-83fa-ce3b8cdb01ad@dunslane.net |
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On 2024-06-11 Tu 19:48, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 06:49:11PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2024-06-10 16:46:56 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-10 Mo 16:04, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> Just for context for the rest the email: I think we desperately need to move
>>>> off perl for tests. The infrastructure around our testing is basically
>>>> unmaintained and just about nobody that started doing dev stuff in the last 10
>>>> years learned perl.
>>> As for what up and coming developers learn, they mostly don't learn C
>>> either, and that's far more critical to what we do.
>> C is a a lot more useful to to them than perl. And it's actually far more
>> widely known these days than perl.
> If we're going to test in a non-Perl language, I'd pick C over Python. There
> would be several other unlikely-community-choice languages I'd pick over
> Python (C#, Java, C++). We'd need a library like today's Perl
> PostgreSQL::Test to make C-language tests nice, but the same would apply to
> any new language.
Indeed. We've invested quite a lot of effort on that infrastructure. I
guess people can learn from what we've done so a second language might
be easier to support.
(Java would be my pick from your unlikely set, but I can see the
attraction of Python.)
>
> I also want the initial scope to be the new language coexisting with the
> existing Perl tests. If a bulk translation ever happens, it should happen
> long after the debut of the new framework. That said, I don't much trust a
> human-written bulk language translation to go through without some tests
> accidentally ceasing to test what they test in Perl today.
+1
cheers
andrew
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Andrew Dunstan
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
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