Comment by stult

I simply don't think that I will ever be able to come up with anything even vaguely as comprehensive as the test coverage that Microsoft already has for ensuring their ORM behaves consistently across database providers. In my over 10 years of using EF, I have never once encountered a database bug like you describe. If I were to discover such a bug (which I'll admit does occasionally happen even though it hasn't happened to me), it would be easier and better by far to submit an issue to the EF team and let them figure out a fix (including the appropriate tests) than it would be to rework my own test infrastructure. I am not in the business of developing requirements or code for databases, and building an elaborate test model for what I consider the essential requirements for a database would be a distraction from developing code that is more valuable to the business.

The same logic does not apply to all ORMs, of course, which do not all benefit from the same quality of professional dev support that EF receives from MS. But that's my main point from above: the correct design decision depends on the context. For services written in other languages with other ORMs or raw SQL, I absolutely will spin up a full Postgres test container because it is indeed trivial (have one running in the background on my laptop right now in fact). It just isn't necessary in the specific context of EntityFramework code.