From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
Cc: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgbench - implement strict TPC-B benchmark |
Date: | 2019-07-30 23:37:54 |
Message-ID: | 9846.1564529874@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:00 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'm also highly dubious about labeling this script "standard TPC-B",
>> when it resolves only some of the reasons why our traditional script
>> is not really TPC-B. That's treading on being false advertising.
> IANAL, but it may not even be permissible to claim that we have
> implemented "standard TPC-B".
Yeah, very likely you can't legally say that unless the TPC
has certified your test. (Our existing code and docs are quite
careful to call pgbench's version "TPC-like" or similar weasel
wording, and never claim that it is really TPC-B or even a close
approximation.)
regards, tom lane
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