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bernhardreiter commented

Thanks for creating and publishing testgres as Free Software.

What are the differences to https://github.com/tk0miya/testing.postgresql especially when would one use the one or the other?

What license is testgres under?
(Assuming that publication on https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testgres/0.2.0 means that it shall be Free Software.)

funbringer commented

Hi @bernhardreiter,

What are the differences to https://github.com/tk0miya/testing.postgresql especially when would one use the one or the other?

To be frank, I've never seen this project before, which means that I can't provide a concrete answer to this question. We strive to create a tool that's suitable for us. However, here's an approximate list of testgres' features:

  • Aims to look like TAP tests framework provided by PostgreSQL;
  • Connection wrapper object (begin(), commit(), abort(), set transaction isolation level);
  • Configurable node builder (data directory, various configs, node's name etc);
  • It's easy to set up a hot standby / cluster etc;
  • pgbench wrapper;
  • psql wrapper;
  • get_pid(), get_control_data() (view pg_control), etc.

Please take a look at our test suite for pg_pathman if you're interested.

What license is testgres under?

Thanks, I've just realized that there's no LICENSE file in this repository. The project is released under the PostgreSQL license, of course.

bernhardreiter commented

Thanks for the quick response.

For the license I additionally recommend to add it to setup.py.