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From: [email protected]
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
To: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:56:49 +0200
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Jelte Fennema-Nio:
> As scripting languages go, the ones that are still fairly heavily in
> use are Javascript, Python, Ruby, and PHP. I think all of those could
> probably work, but my personal order of preference would be Python,
> Ruby, Javascript, PHP.
> 
> Finally, I'm definitely biased towards using Python myself. But I
> think there's good reasons for that:
> 1. In the data space, that Postgres in, Python is very heavily used for analysis
> 2. Everyone coming out of university these days knows it to some extent
> 3. Multiple people in the community have been writing Postgres related
> tests in python and have enjoyed doing so (me[1], Jacob[2],
> Alexander[3])

PostgREST also uses pytest for integration tests - and that was a very 
good decision compared to the bash based tests we had before.

One more argument for Python compared to the other mentioned scripting 
languages: Python is already a development dependency via meson. None of 
the other 3 are. In a future where meson will be the only build system, 
we will have python "for free" already.

Best,

Wolfgang

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