Set locale for running database processes about pytest-postgresql

[fizyk]

What do you mean after first start? process fixture (postgresql_proc) has a session scope, so it'll start when the first test using postgresql will need it, and be running until the last one. postgresql fixture on the other hand, takes care of creating a connection to your tests, and cleaning the database after each test.

[fizyk]

From @enkore on May 5, 2016 8:13

What do you mean after first start?

After tests have run, before /tmp is emptied by the system (reboot or cronjob, or manually). My observation is that the logfile is not deleted (contrary to the docstring of remove_postgresql_directory, but in line with how I read the code) when the fixture finalizer is run.

$ rm /tmp/postgresql.5433.log
$ py.test
...
== xyz passed ... ==
$ py.test
...
$ grep "database system is ready to accept connections" /tmp/postgresql.5433.log 
LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections

[fizyk]

oh.... because it landed outside the postgresql datadir... could you create another issue for that?

[fizyk]

However it should only be deleted at the beginning. or maybe rotated? Something to ease up debugging in case there's something wrong in tests.

[fizyk]

From @enkore on May 5, 2016 22:16

Truncate it when starting a new instance: It would live on after tests (only a little bit of file system garbage, and /tmp'd by default), so debugging is easy

could you create another issue for that?

sure