From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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 23:31:54 |
Message-ID: | CAH2-Wz=Ex2_xhuvaWY-dP-iVuAgvZL+j3Z+xPjSmRhx0V0PczQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:00 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> TBH, I think we should reject this patch. Nobody cares about TPC-B
> anymore, and they care even less about differences between one
> sort-of-TPC-B test and another sort-of-TPC-B test. (As the lack
> of response on this thread shows.) We don't need this kind of
> baggage in pgbench; it's got too many "features" already.
+1. TPC-B was officially made obsolete in 1995.
> 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".
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Peter Geoghegan
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