PostgreSQL bindings available in Python3

[joncinque]

This pull request contains a lot of changes to update the carta fork to the current quickfix master. To make it easier to see my contributions compared with what everyone else has done, I will separately push my changes.

To build:

./bootstrap
./configure --with-python3 --with-postgresql --prefix=/whatever/path/you/use
make
make install

New test case has been provided at src/python/test/PostgreSQLStoreTestCase.py which simply translates src/C++/test/PostgreSQLStoreTestCase.cpp. Note that it is not run by default from src/python/test-python*.sh.

To run the test, modify PostgreSQLStoreTestCase.py to add in your appropriate testing configuration (DB name, user, password, etc), then let it rip!

python3 PostgreSQLStoreTestCase.py

IMPORTANT NOTE: some of the test cases drop the tables, so BE SURE to use a testing database.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

[joncinque]

If you want to see just my changes, take a look at c572fd0

[joncinque]

Any word on this? Let me know if you need any other info or if you have any questions.

[volksport]

@joncinque We have a few internal things we're working on that are taking precedent over testing this on staging (our first pass at it appears ok though). We will update you once we have a chance to thoroughly test it.

thanks!

[joncinque]

Ok cool, thanks for the update!

[joncinque]

Any update here?

[volksport]

Will likely be a few more weeks

[volksport]

@joncinque We've begun testing this on a staging environment. Will likely keep that going for a few more weeks before deploying. Will keep you updated!

[joncinque]

Great, let me know if you need anything more!

[joncinque]

Has this been integrated? Do you still need this branch and repo for your tests?

[joncinque]

And also, do you want to make a pull request to the main quickfix to expose these postgres bindings?

[joncinque]

I need to integrate some changes back to the original quickfix, and since github only allows one fork of a project per account, I'd like to get rid of this one to have it point to the original quickfix. I've made a local clone with a branch of the PostgreSQL changes on top of the canonical repo. If I don't hear from you otherwise by Monday, I'll go ahead and remove this fork in order to work against the main quickfix repo. Let me know how you want to proceed.