Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-06-12T16:45:52Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On 12 Jun 2024, at 18:08, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 17:50, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

>> One thing worth thinking about is that such dependencies have to work on a
>> relatively large number of platforms / architectures. A lot of projects
>> don't...
> 
> Do they really? A bunch of the Perl tests we just skip on windows or
> uncommon platforms. I think we could do the same for these.

For a project intended to improve on the status quo it seems like a too low bar to just port over the deficincies in the thing we’re trying to improve over.

./daniel