Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-06-12T19:34:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> I might be missing something obvious, but if we use a third-party libpq driver
> in the testsuite doesn't that imply that a patch adding net new functionality
> to libpq also need to add it to the driver in order to write the tests?

I use the third-party driver to perform the "basics" at a high level
-- connections, queries during cluster setup, things that don't
involve ABI changes. For new ABI I use ctypes, or as other people have
mentioned CFFI would work.

--Jacob