Re: Re: [RFC VOTE] Unbundle ext/interbase

On 02.05.2019 at 16:04, Lester wrote: > On 02/05/2019 14:35, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > >> Yeah that is one thing that is kind of unfortunate and a bad practice. >> However since interbase was disabled for AppVeyor, these tests had no >> chance to run in a while. Looking at the actual code in testdb.inc, it >> seems like it creates the database for testing purposes, I would >> suppose this is due to PDO_Firebird perhaps requiring a database to >> continue its connection flow in PDO itself. >> >> I'm not sure how we can go about this, maybe a .sql file for testers >> who run the test suite for schemas and then see if we can integrate >> some auto importer in our CI build scripts for this special case? (In >> the case we cannot go around PDO). Either way the test files requires >> a manual touch to configure credentials to run. >> >> I'm personally fine with the simple solution, thoughts? > > Firebird requires the database to exist before PDO can make a connection > and there are a number of ways to handle it, but the simple solution is > to use the example database that comes with Firebird. What does > complicate things though is that distributions often bundle it > separately, and will 'improve security' by not using the default user > login. Hence the credentials problem becomes installation dependent. A > default install using the official Firebird distributions should work > with the test suite using the sample database rather than the temporary > one. A patch would be welcome! -- Christoph M. Becker