Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>

From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: 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: 2024-06-17T08:27:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Greg, Jelte,

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 23:53, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> 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).

I feel I'm still relatively new (started in the past 4 years) and I have
quite some time left before I hit 30 years of age.

I don't specifically feel the way you describe, nor do I think I've ever
really felt like that in the previous nearly 4 years of hacking. Then
again, I'm not interested in testing frameworks, so I don't feel much at
all about which test frameworks we use.

> 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.

Could you point me to one occasion I have 'always' clamored for this, or
any of "those young-uns" in the community? I may not be a huge fan of C,
but rewriting PostgreSQL in [other language] is not on the list of things
I'm clamoring for. I may have given off-hand mentions that [other language]
would've helped in certain cases, sure, but I'd hardly call that clamoring.

Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent