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From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:00:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, 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>
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 5:53=E2=80=AFPM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail=
.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48=E2=80=AFPM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jelt=
ef.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).
>
>
> Those young-uns are also the same group who hold their nose when coding i=
n C, and are always clamoring for rewriting Postgres in Rust. And before th=
at, 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