In response to Paul Taylor <ij...@fastmail.fm>:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Paul Taylor <ij...@fastmail.fm>:
> >
> >> Sam Mason wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:37:34PM +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Does postgres have an embedded mode to allow a database to be embedded 
> >>>> with Java application without requiring seperate db manager, like the 
> >>>> derby database does ?
> >>>>         
> >>> No, and I think the consensus is that this would be bad.  See:
> >>>
> >>>   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Can_PostgreSQL_be_embedded.3F
> >>>       
> >> Thats a shame, I wanted to write junit test for a java program that 
> >> queried a database, requiring a full database to be available for unit 
> >> tests is not really an environment I want to have.
> >
> > Has it occurred to you that testing a DB client when there's no
> > DB isn't really a very accurate or realistic test?
>
> I am testing the code that extracts information from a read only 
> database. These are UNIT tests so only interested in getting the right 
> results given a particular set of data, anything else is a distraction.

Then replace the DB client class with a class that returns fabricated
data for the purpose of your test.

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Bill Moran
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