Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: Jason Earl <jason(dot)earl(at)simplot(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
Date: 2003-06-21 05:34:45
Message-ID: 20030621132541.X14306-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> If you mean the one that comes with PostgreSQL, then I think the MySQL
> test is better. The PostgreSQL test seems to focus more on extensions
> than anything else.

What the? It tests no extensions. The extensions have their own
regression tests.

> Most of the criticism leveled at their efforts sound like fearful hand
> waving to me. True, I have not studied the test as carefully as others
> have. But the PostgreSQL test is not superior to the MySQL test. I
> have put considerable effort into the PostgreSQL regression test. We
> achieved 100% success on the Win32 platform, including dynamic loading
> of functions.

Notice that it tests absulutely no parallel functionality, whereas
PostgreSQL tests things in parallel to check for concurrency problems:

"Note that this benchmark is single threaded, so it measures the minimum
time for the operations. We plan to in the future add a lot of
multi-threaded tests to the benchmark suite. "

It's said that for at least 4 years now.

Crash-me has nothing to do with testing, it jsut checks to see what
features a db supports:

"crash-me tries to determine what features a database supports and what
its capabilities and limitations are by actually running queries. For
example, it determines:

What column types are supported
How many indexes are supported
What functions are supported
How big a query can be
How big a VARCHAR column can be"

Obviously it has nothing to do with can I index every type in the system,
can I use the index to look up a set of test values, etc., etc.

Chris

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