pgtest

Go library to spawn single-use PostgreSQL servers for unit testing

Spawns a PostgreSQL server with a single database configured. Ideal for unit tests where you want a clean instance each time. Then clean up afterwards.

Features:

• Starts a clean isolated PostgreSQL database
• Tested on Fedora, Ubuntu and Alpine
• Optimized for in-memory execution, to speed up unit tests
• Less than 1 second startup / initialization time
• Automatically drops permissions when testing as root

Usage

In your unit test:

pg, err := pgtest.Start()
defer pg.Stop()

// Do something with pg.DB (which is a *sql.DB)

License

This library is distributed under the MIT license.