Make concessions for Windows when running the testsuite (it does not support docker containers in githubs CI)

Author: Jamesbarford

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -83,17 +83,6 @@ jobs:
   test_on_windows:
     name: Test on Windows
     runs-on: windows-latest
-    env:
-      TEST_DB_URL: postgres://postgres:testpass@localhost:5432/postgres
-    services:
-      postgres:
-        image: postgres:16-alpine
-        env:
-          POSTGRES_USER: postgres
-          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: testpass
-          POSTGRES_DB: postgres
-        ports:
-          - 5432:5432
     steps:
       - name: Checkout the source code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

database/src/tests/mod.rs

@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ where
         let ctx = f(ctx).await.expect("Test failed");
         ctx.finish().await;
     } else {
-        panic!("Aborting; `TEST_DB_URL` was not passed");
+        // The github CI does not yet support running containers on Windows,
+        // meaning that the test suite would fail.
+        if cfg!(unix) {
+            panic!("Aborting; `TEST_DB_URL` was not passed");
+        } else {
+            eprintln!(
+                "Skipping database test on platform {} `TEST_DB_URL` was not passed",
+                std::env::consts::OS
+            );
+        }
     }
 }