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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:09:21 +0200
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Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 01:48, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> If we're going to test in a non-Perl language, I'd pick C over Python.
> <snip>
> We'd need a library like today's Perl
> PostgreSQL::Test to make C-language tests nice, but the same would apply to
> any new language.

P.P.S. We already write tests in C, we use it for testing libpq[1].
I'd personally definitely welcome a C library to make those tests
nicer to write, because I've written a fair bit of those in the past
and currently it's not very fun to do.

[1]: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/test/modules/libpq_pipeline/libpq_pipeline.c