[redland-dev] Postgresql / Unit Tests

[Charles F. I. Savage]

Thanks for the tips.  Okay, we'll take the tests generated by make check 
and change them to work with a postgresql database.  I'll report back 
once we're done.

Charlie

Dave Beckett wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 01:45 -0600, Charles F. I. Savage wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm interested in using Redland with postgresql.  As far as I could see, 
>> no one has done this yet. 
>>     
>
> You're correct.  It's on the TODO someday pile :)
>
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>> Thus, I've had a friend put together a postgresql storage driver.  It is 
>> basically a direct port of the code in rdf_storage_mysql.c (including 
>> the same database schema).  I'd like to test this code as thoroughly as 
>> possible - what is the appropriate way to do this?  Should I use the 
>> unit tests associated with the Python bindings (or with the other 
>> language bindings), the tests that are run by make check, or there other 
>> unit tests that I'm not seeing?
>>
>> Last, if people are interested, we'd be happy to donate this code to the 
>> Redland project. 
>>     
>
> That sounds great.  You are right that the python bindings do exercise a
> good lot of the API, but there are unit tests in the rdf_CLASS.c files
> for most classes as you said (those run by 'make check').  The
> rdf_model.c tests exercise the model API and could be copied to use the
> postgres backend as a test for it.
>
> The tricky part as you might guess, is that sql storage tests require a
> running sql database which is rather hard to set up in an automated
> fashion such that 'configure; make; make check' works.  Why is why I
> don't routinely check the MySQL or other optional stores in test cases.
>
> Dave
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