Alliterative locales, languages, collations.
A tox on all your houses (test combinations).
The last item to fix in the Pyrseas unit tests so that they run on Windows is related to the PostgreSQL 9.1 COLLATION feature. When creating the tests, I was influenced by the examples in the documentation, i.e., I created a collation with ‘fr_FR.utf8′ LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. On Linux, it’s fairly straightforward to add such a locale to your system (although perhaps Windows users may disagree 
), so the tests worked as expected.
On Windows, however, most collation tests failed with
DataError: could not create locale "fr_FR.utf8": No error
Unfortunately, the PG documentation doesn’t seem to provide any hints on what is the Windows equivalent of ‘fr_FR.utf8′ (or similar Linux locales). Eventually I figured it out by looking at the output of \l (list databases) in psql. This showed the Collation and Ctype (in my case) where ‘English_United States.1252′ so I assumed what was needed was ‘French.France.1252′. Here is the procedure to set that up:
Open the Control Panel, select Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options, then Regional and Language Options (or Add other languages), click on the Advanced tab in the dialog and then choose “French (France)” from the dropdown. Finally, click OK and respond to any subsequent prompts to install the locale, including rebooting the machine.
Aside: For comparison, on Debian Linux, the equivalent procedure involves running sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales, selecting fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8 from a list, accepting the default locale and waiting for the locales to be generated (no reboot necessary). Second aside: On Linux, you can deselect a locale to remove it from your system, but Windows doesn’t appear to allow for language removals.
To test, make sure you have the latest Pyrseas code from GitHub, which includes a change to fix the COLLATION tests to run on Windows.
Finally, we’re ready to install Tox and run all the unit tests with a single command. First, run pip install tox under both Python 2.7 and 3.2. Next, define (set) the environment variables PG84_PORT, PG90_PORT, PG91_PORT, and PG92_PORT to point to the corresponding PostgreSQL ports.
Then simply invoke tox from the Python 2.7 environment. Thanks to the Pyrseas tox.ini, this will install Python 2.7 and 3.2 virtualenvs, under a .tox subdirectory in the Pyrseas tree, install Psycopg2, PyYAML and Pyrseas into each virtualenv and run the unit tests eight times, once for each combination of Python and PostgreSQL.
If you have been following along, the only test failure should be in test_extension.py, in test_map_lang_extension, when attempting to CREATE EXTENSION plperl, due to the missing PERL514.DLL (see previous post). The error will only occur under PG 9.1 and 9.2.
The only problem I noticed with tox is that when there are errors it may get confused in its summary report.
___________________________________ summary ___________________________________ py27pg90: commands succeeded py27pg91: commands succeeded py27pg92: commands succeeded ERROR: py32pg91: commands failed py27pg84: commands succeeded ERROR: py32pg84: commands failed ERROR: py32pg90: commands failed ERROR: py32pg92: commands failed
The errors actually occurred in the *pg91 and *pg92 environments but tox reports that all py32* tests failed, which was not the case. This is a minor issue considering all that tox accomplishes, with very little setup or configuration.
Filed under: PostgreSQL, Python
