Re: Regression tests

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Quite, but in the meantime, a good benchmark should stress the system
>> enough to cause crashes, lockups or at least incorrect results if a
>> bug is introduced in the shared memory or semaphore code, and will
>> definitely reveal any slowdowns introduced by new code, so my question
>> is: where can I find a good benchmark for PostgreSQL? Note that I
>> don't care about comparing PostgreSQL to other RDBMSes; I just want to
>> a) test PostgreSQL under high concurrent load and b) if possible,
>> measure the performance impact of a patch.

> You can use contrib/pgbench as a rather simplistic test, or you could
> try OSDB (http://osdb.sourceforge.net/)

For something a little tougher, talk to Mark Wong about using OSDL's
testbed.

regards, tom lane