Re: pgbench--new transaction type

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgbench--new transaction type
Date: 2012-06-20 19:22:11
Message-ID: CAEYLb_WJ5eo0yg_fV6jRQ_GSgQ3bPhd-XZ34Y7NwNCrzLW1eJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 20 June 2012 19:57, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Yeah, this sounds like a good approach. A library of standard workload
> scripts seems very useful. I've been using custom scripts to benchmark WAL
> insertion scalability lately, that also seems like a kind of a thing to put
> in such a library. I don't know if we should ship the library of scripts in
> contrib, or just put them up on a web site, but something like that...

The situation would be made a lot better if we could just find a way
to generalise pgbench a little bit more. I'm thinking about a facility
for specifying new tables in scripts, with a moderate degree of
flexibility as to their definition, data, and the distribution of that
data.

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Peter Geoghegan       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services

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