Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>,
Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-06-15T22:00:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote: >> >> Afaict, there's a significant part of our current community who feel the same way (and I'm pretty sure every sub-30 year old person who >> newly joins the community would feel the exact same way too). > > > Those young-uns are also the same group who hold their nose when coding in C, and are always clamoring for rewriting Postgres in Rust. And before that, C++. And next year, some other popular language that is clearly better and more popular than C. Writing a new test framework in a popular language that makes it more likely that more people will write more tests and test infrastructure is such a completely different thing than suggesting we rewrite Postgres in Rust that I feel that this comparison is unfair and, frankly, a distraction from the discussion at hand. - Melanie