Re: "truncate all"?

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 04:39, Andreas wrote: 
> At 17:55 05.08.2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >I also don't think that outside of your particular
> >case that there's much demand for it;
> 
> I would like to believe that there is a need for efficient unit-testing 
> (unit-tests can be seen as a kind of regression tests for applications) in 
> postgresql beyond our project. If developers are not using unit-tests 
> (yet), I would also like to believe that this should not be interpreted as 
> an indication that they do not want to use them, but maybe that they do not 
> know about them.
> 

IMHO the dropdb/createdb/load schema/load data cycle provides for a
better unit test than the truncate data/load data cycle does, so while I
see this functionality as handy for development, I wouldn't use it for
unit testing.  

Robert Treat
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