On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steve Crawford < scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 09:05 PM, Perry Smith wrote: > >> To all who replied: >> >> Thank you. ... >> >> >> I had not seriously considered pg_dump / pg_restore because I assumed it >> would be fairly slow but I will experiment with pg_restore and template >> techniques this weekend and see which ones prove viable. >> > > Another possibility a bit outside my area of expertise but what about a VM > image configured to your needs that you just spin up as needed then discard > when done (i.e. always spinning up the same starting image)? > > I'd guess the OP is running hundreds of tests, where the data needs to be reverted/reset after each test, and each individual test might run in, say, 0.1 seconds. This is a really common technique when testing web apps. I don't think you'd want to start a VM for each of these tests, especially when the tests are small and specific.
