Re: shared_buffers advice

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> I still think the best tool around currently for this kind of testing is
> tsung

I am happy to say that for now, pgbench is the only actual testing tool
supported. Done; now I don't need tsung.

However, that doesn't actually solve any of the problems I was talking
about though, which is why I'm not even talking about that part. We
need the glue to pull out software releases, run whatever testing tool
is appropriate, and then save the run artifacts in some standardized
form so they can be referenced with associated build/configuration
information to track down a regression when it does show up. Building
those boring bits are the real issue here; load testing tools are easy
to find because those are fun to work on.

And as a general commentary on the vision here, tsung will never fit
into this anyway because "something that can run on the buildfarm
machines with the software they already have installed" is the primary
target. I don't see anything about tsung so interesting that it trumps
that priority, even though it is an interesting tool.

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