Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
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>> Afaict, there's a significant part of our current community who feel the same way (and I'm pretty sure every sub-30
yearold person who 
>> newly joins the community would feel the exact same way too).
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> Those young-uns are also the same group who hold their nose when coding in C, and are always clamoring for rewriting
Postgresin Rust. And before that, C++. And next year, some other popular language that is clearly better and more
popularthan 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