On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 17:19, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wonder if we should be checking out some of the other newer > languages that were mentioned upthread.
If this is actually something that we want to seriously evaluate, I think that's a significant effort. And I think the people that want a language would need to step in to make that effort. So far Jacob[1], Alexander[2] and me[3] seem to be doing that for Python, and Sutou has done that for Ruby[4]. [1]: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/tree/master/test [2]: https://github.com/jchampio/pg-pytest-suite [3]: https://github.com/postgrespro/testgres [4]: https://github.com/pgroonga/pgroonga/blob/main/test/test-streaming-replication.rb > It feels like going to > Python here will lead to having two testing infrastructures with > mas-o-menos the same capabilities, leaving us with a situation > where people have to know both languages in order to make sense of > our test suite. I find it hard to picture that as an improvement > over the status quo. You don't have to be fluent in writing Python to be able to read and understand tests written in it. As someone familiar with Python I can definitely read our test suite, and I expect everyone smart enough to be fluent in Perl to be able to read and understand Python with fairly little effort too. I think having significantly more tests being written, and those tests being written faster and more correctly, is definitely worth the slight mental effort of learning to read two very similarly looking scripting languages (they both pretty much looking like pseudo code).
