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PGlite wrapper in Python for testing. Test your app with Postgres just as lite as SQLite.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2025-06-06 · latest 2026-04-11

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  1. I like the idea of PGLite! Unfortunately, when I tried to use it with https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite to speed up tests, I got stuck on it not being able to handle cell contents above a few thousand characters, which was a deal breaker…
    comment by solarkraft · 2026-04-11 · in PGLite Evangelism
  2. …which spins a full Postgres in Docker. But new alternatives like this make py-pglite ( https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite ) possible which is Python unit testing with PGlite. Even so, for Python unit testing I'm more confident in…
    comment by odie5533 · 2025-12-04 · in PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
  3. Roadmap of v1 https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite/issues/4
    comment by wey-gu · 2025-06-06 · in Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite
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    Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite
    story by wey-gu · 2025-06-06 · 52 comments