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From: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:22:48 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM Jacob Champion
<[email protected]> wrote:
> When enabling the feature, the check_pytest.py script checks that the
> configured `PYTHON` executable has all of pytest-requirements.txt
> installed. Peter pointed out that this is incorrect: what we actually
> want to check is that the interpreter used by pytest has all of the
> required packages, and the two could be different.

Turns out we've already solved this exact problem for Perl and Prove
[1], and I should probably choose a similar solution for Python and
pytest. In other words: make the requirements check into a test.

--Jacob

[1] http://postgr.es/c/c4fe3199a





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