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The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework.
TAF provides the structure — lifecycle management, workload execution, profiling, reporting, and reproducible properties files — and each database plugin supplies the engine‑specific logic.
The first two plugins added to TAF were MariaDB and MySQL, proving the model: database vendors can plug their engine into TAF and immediately gain automated installs, structured workloads, concurrency sweeps, flamegraphs, and reproducible test runs.
Now, thanks to sponsor #Virtuozzo and the contribution from Virtuozzo’s employee, Lukas Oliva, TAF includes a full PostgreSQL database plugin (PR #7).
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