From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
Cc: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 2018-03 Commitfest Summary (Andres #1) |
Date: | 2018-03-29 14:07:04 |
Message-ID: | 20180329140704.GB16165@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:13:26PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> FWIW, I think that pgbench would become a lot more usable if someone
> maintained a toolset for managing pgbench. Something similar to Greg
> Smith's pgbench-tools project, but with additional features for
> instrumenting the server. There would be a lot of value in integrating
> it with third party tooling, such as perf and BCC, and in making it
> easy for non-experts to run relevant, representative tests.
>
> Things like the rate limiting and alternative distributions were
> sorely needed, but there are diminishing returns. It's pretty clear to
> me that much of the remaining low hanging fruit is outside of pgbench
> itself. None of the more recent pgbench enhancements seem to make it
> easier to use.
Has anyone considered moving pgbench out of our git tree and into a
separate project where a separate team could maintain and improve it?
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