Re: Regression tests

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des(at)des(dot)no>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regression tests
Date: 2005-05-04 07:20:59
Message-ID: 427877DB.8050607@familyhealth.com.au
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> 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/)

Chris

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