Re: Postgres specific fields and third party apps.

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Christie
Thanks Marc, that's helpful input. > I would probably have the motivation to create a PR for DRF showing a possible travis/testing setup for what I have proposed. No, don't worry about that. We actually don't have any need to *hit* the database in those tests at all, we just need to make sure

Re: Postgres specific fields and third party apps.

2015-02-05 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I would strongly disagree with supporting these on SQLite, in any format. A fully supported version would be complex to support and enormously inefficient, and I'm not in favour of Django shipping half baked features with major holes in them. I certainly don't have the motivation to build this.

Postgres specific fields and third party apps.

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Christie
I'm not sure if there'll be an actionable outcome of this, but wanted to raise it for discussion. We've started supporting some of the PostgreSQL specific fields in Django REST framework, and I ran into a roadblock when adding a new testcase. Unsurprisingly we're not able to test them without