Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Paul Taylor <ijabz@fastmail.fm>:
>
>
>> Sam Mason wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:37:34PM +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Does postgres have an embedded mode to allow a database to be embedded
>>>> with Java application without requiring seperate db manager, like the
>>>> derby database does ?
>>>>
>>> No, and I think the consensus is that this would be bad. See:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Can_PostgreSQL_be_embedded.3F
>>>
>> Thats a shame, I wanted to write junit test for a java program that
>> queried a database, requiring a full database to be available for unit
>> tests is not really an environment I want to have.
>>
>
> Has it occurred to you that testing a DB client when there's no
> DB isn't really a very accurate or realistic test?
>
>
I am testing the code that extracts information from a read only
database. These are UNIT tests so only interested in getting the right
results given a particular set of data, anything else is a distraction.
Paul
