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Re:My $500M Mars rover mistake by norman784 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:50AM (#38456685)
Our test suite expects that the database name has a `_test` suffix, so you can't run the tests even locally without the suffix.
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Re:My $500M Mars rover mistake by masklinn on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:41AM (#38457406)
Our test harness takes an optional template as input and immediately copies it.

It’s useful to distribute the test anyway, especially for non-transactional tests.

If the database initialisation is costly that’s useful even if tests run on empty, as copying a database from a template is much faster than creating one DDL by DDL, for postgres at least.

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Re:My $500M Mars rover mistake by masklinn on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @12:27PM (#38462241)
(distribute as in parallelise, possibly across multiple machines)
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Re:My $500M Mars rover mistake by spixy on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:20PM (#38465481)
Our test suite uses DB user that exists in docker DB but not in prod, so droping prod database cannot happen.
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