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Re:Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL d... by whalesalad on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:51PM (#26948690)
Unless you rely on transactions in your code. I’m going to take the schema route for a spin. You essentially utilize a schema as a namespace and destroy it when tests are complete (as opposed to the “public” default schema)

This way you don’t need to worry about provisioning a stand-alone db for each test run, but still get ephemerality. Plus the ability to run transactions.

Re:Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL d... by pritambaral on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:05PM (#26948864)
> You essentially utilize a schema as a namespace and destroy it when tests are complete (as opposed to the “public” default schema)

Unless you rely on schemas as static namespaces in your code (even if the schemas your code expects includes the "public" common schema).

I prefer using dedicated schemas for dedicated micro-apps/services/components. Say, one for the event log, one for the (business) metadata, one for the reports.

> This way you don’t need to worry about provisioning a stand-alone db for each test run

Practically, `CREATE DATABASE tmp_xxx; \c tmp_xxx` isn't much different from `CREATE SCHEMA tmp_xxx; SET search_path TO tmp_xxx, public;`. They both do essentially the same thing when the dust settles. But the latter requires migrations to be applied to the new schema, while the former allows you to short-circuit that with a simple `CREATE DATABASE tmp_xxx FROM TEMPLATE seeded_test_db`.

Re:Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL d... by desas on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:58PM (#26948775)
We modified our code base to give us nested transactions using postgres savepoints, came in handy for automatically wrapping tests in transactions too (though you can opt-out per test)
Re:Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL d... by throwdbaaway on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:13PM (#26948937)
https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/notes-on-some-postg... - Be aware that there is a very bad performance cliff in postgres when using savepoints.
Re:Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL d... by edoceo on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:37PM (#26949180)
thanks for that awesome read