Hi Jerry:

Your latest patch sees to have done much of the trick.
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test/test_indexer.py::XapianIndexerTest::test_manyresults PASSED
test/test_indexer.py::XapianIndexerTest::test_stopwords PASSED
test/test_indexer.py::XapianIndexerTest::test_wordsplitting PASSED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_basics FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_casesensitity FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_change FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_clear FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_extremewords FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_manyresults FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_stopwords FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::postgresqlIndexerTest::test_wordsplitting FAILED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_basics SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_casesensitity SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_change SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_clear SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_extremewords SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_manyresults SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_stopwords SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::mysqlIndexerTest::test_wordsplitting SKIPPED
test/test_indexer.py::sqliteIndexerTest::test_basics PASSED
test/test_indexer.py::sqliteIndexerTest::test_casesensitity PASSED
test/test_indexer.py::sqliteIndexerTest::test_change PASSED
...

I'll need to figure out how mysql gets skipped but postgres doesn't
as import MySQLdb works fine and the backend check seems to pass
but mysql tests are still properly skipped.

Thanks.