For library end users, there is no need to install tests alongside the
package itself. This keeps the tests available for development without
adding extra packages to user's site-packages directory. Reduces the
size of the installed package. Avoids accidental execution of test code
by an installed package.
The tests relied on Python2 relative import semantics. Python3 changed
import semantics to always search sys.path by default. To import using a
relative path it must have a leading dot.
Forward compatible with newer Pythons.
Works towards the goal of moving tests outside of the installed package.
For more information, see PEP-328:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
namedtuple is available on all Python versions supported by psycopg2. It
was first introduced in Python 2.6. Can remove all workarounds and
special documentation.
The syntax "except Exception, exc:" is deprecated. All Python versions
supported by psycopg2 support the newer, modern syntax. Forward
compatible with future Python versions.
It's not so much about tests being slow: some just get stuck and timeout
travis.
Skipped all tests taking about more than 0.2s to run on my laptop.
Fast testing takes about 8s instead of 24.
The Windows server version of PostgreSQL uses a function called pgkill in the
file kill.c in place of the UNIX kill function. This pgkill function
simulates some of the SIGHUP like commands by passing signals through a named
pipe. Because it is passing the signal through a pipe, the server doesn't get
the kill signal immediately and therefore fails the test on
test_connection.ConnectionTests.test_cleanup_on_badconn_close.
Ideally, the test should check to see if the server is running on Windows, not
the psycopg.
PG 9.0 uses the hex format by default, and clients < 9.0 can't parse that
format, requiring client update and great care in what is linked at runtime,
and generally giving headache to users and transitively us.
Windows is not able to create a tempfile with NamedTemporaryFile and then
open it with a second file handle without closing the first one. Added
code to close the handle, and keep the file around a little longer so it
can be reopened and rewritten to again.
