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From: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:00:43 -0400
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]> 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






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