Re: 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Nikolas Everett <nik9000(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:43 -0500, Nikolas Everett wrote:
>> > Turning fsync off on a dev database is a bad idea?  Sure you might
>> > kill it and have to start over, but thats kind of the point in a dev
>> > database.
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>> My experience is that bad dev practices turn into bad production
>> practices, whether intentionally or not.
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> Fair enough.  I'm of the opinion that developers need to have their unit
> tests run fast.  If they aren't fast then your just not going to test as
> much as you should.  If your unit tests *have* to createdb then you have to
> do whatever you have to do to get it fast.  It'd probably be better if unit
> tests don't create databases or alter tables at all though.

This is my big issue. dropping / creating databases for unit tests is
overkill. Running any DDL at all for a unit test seems wrong to me
too. Insert a row if you need it, MAYBE. Unit tests should work with
a test database that HAS the structure and database already in place.

What happens if your unit tests get lose in production and drop a
database, or a table. Not good.